Ministry, in any aspect, is hard. It can wear us thin and cause us to stay awake at night. Ministry takes planning, organizing, and time away from things we like. We see a need, we feel like we should fill it. Can I whisper a freeing truth in your ear? Every need is not a call. Just because you see a need, doesn’t mean you are called to fill it. Before starting any new ministry, or if you are trying to let go of…
My husband and I were talking the other day about our church. You see, a couple of years ago our church found itself without a pastor. Right about the same time a pastor found himself without a church. To make a long story short, this godly man agreed to be our interim pastor until we could find a permanent one. What we didn’t know, and what he didn’t know, was what God was going to do. As we met together every Sunday and Wednesday, he…
Piece by piece we put the puzzle together. It grows bigger and bigger, revealing the picture from the box. As we sort through the pieces, we might have a strategy, we might get lucky and find a few pieces that fit together, but when we look at the pieces still sitting off to the side we see a tangled mess. Most of life resembles the unassembled puzzle. We walk through our days, holding the broken pieces close to our chest….
I got in my car, turned the key and sighed. My emotions and body were tired from the meeting. I knew I should have been smiling, feeling refreshed after an evening by myself. Instead I felt let down. When I got home, I replayed some of the conversations from dinner with my husband, trying to figure out why a productive, God-led meeting felt like a let-down. Was it the nature of the new friendships? Or was it because I wasn’t doing things…