Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Take 3

Apparently, writing for this blog is a bi-annual event. It started four years ago with this post about how I needed to start writing again. Two years later I wrote about being stuck and needing to take the next right step here.  Now it has been over two years and almost everything I wrote about two years ago is still very true. I still feel stuck, I'm still not sure what the next right step is, I still struggle with negative emotions related to how my career in ministry seems to have ended and I'm still overweight.

I guess it's not totally true to say I'm not sure what the next right step is, I don't know what the next big step is. That big step would be finally figuring out what the next act of my professional life will be (more on that later), but I do know a number of little steps that God has been prompting me to take and beginning to write again is one of them. I knew that 4 years ago-didn't follow through. I knew that 2 years ago-didn't follow through. I know that today and I sincerely hope that it's not another 2 years before I come back here and write again, this has to become a daily discipline for me.  It doesn't have to be long, doesn't have to be profound, it just has to be consistent, daily.

Here at the beginning, it's probably just going to be for me, I don't really plan on promoting or publicizing this, but we will see where it goes,

I Give Up

"It's about our pride. He asks if we'll give up that thing we're so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in ...