Stopping by...

So a lot has been going on and a lot of thoughts worth mentioning have come around the past month; yet none have made it to the blog here. Soon there will be several and what I expect to be a final post. I figure it is okay to finally shut down at post number 300. I'll leave this up obviously and maybe finish the archive on the right so it can all be accessed from start to finish.

In the meantime, I've been struggling with a lot these days; personal struggles and struggles in service mostly. It isn't that I am depressed or falling apart (nobody worry), but that life is simply not easy all the time. It does not matter how talented you are, how laidback or hard a worker you are, some times life pours it on. These are the times when we get to show ourselves though. A man's strength can't be seen until he lifts something heavy after all and the same thing goes with spiritual matters.

On the business end of things, I've got my hands full at church. Sunday school for the 15-18 year olds and youth group devotions for a rowdy bunch of 12-18 year olds. On top of that the new service is starting to pick up again with the addition of a new worship leader, but our sound tech is gone so I think I'm in charge of coordinating with the new leader. Also, if all goes well, the Small Group will be starting in mid October, but as is I don't know for sure.

Today I took a few minutes and re-read some letters I had written on youtube; they have me pining for the days of debate and discussion with people. I really miss that even though it rarely seemed to matter to them, but no time exists for more than re-reading old letters these days.