Near-sighted

Like anyone that goes to a highschool that wants to make college more of a reality to all of its students, when I graduated I felt like I could do pretty much anything I wanted to in life.  I was a Christian, had been heavily involved with worship bands and what-not but denied that I would work in ministry some day.

Looking at college I tossed around creative writing, music, design, and other creative avenues and never really felt like any of them were “the one”.  Here I am now several years later beginning a long journey as a lead pastor of a growing congregation which regularly includes me writing sermons, leading worship services and eventually training others in this, and creating various elements of a graphic design nature along with much, much more.

Now looking back I see that those areas I was interested in weren’t necessarily ‘bad’, or ‘wrong’; just that what Jesus had in store for me was something that rolled all of those elements plus more into one big life calling.  In a sense I was very near-sighted [actually metaphorically and physically] and only saw the events immediately in front of me, all the while the Good Lord was trying to show things to me far off.

Sometimes if it feels like God is leading you in 17 directions, there just might be something that combines most of them far off that you just can’t see yet.