Family is good, though loving family well is a challenge when you work 60+ a week. Luke is rocking the tooth bearing world, and about to start dominating the running/walking world. Also looking like he might be an awesome footballer. My guess is he could be the american wayne rooney. He's got some work left, but he's already on the road to a good strong kick. Courtney is doing a fantastic job with Luke. He's the awesome kid he is because he's got a great mom watching him all day. I don't give her enough praise & credit, but that doesn't make her work there any less awesome. We've got friends coming in soon too to hang out, and that will be fun too. Can't wait for that!
I started a new blog mostly in relation to design stuff that I've been doing. I got an awesome chance to do some graphic design stuff for wesley umc, and that was a blast to walk through the whole process. I've still got a bit of stuff to finish for them (customizing business cards with names/titles) but other than that it's all done. Helped finance my purchase of one of these. Been loving that purchase too. And I'm looking at my first big "speaking engagement" for a camp. I had a one night deal where I pinch hit for a friend, but this would be a legit week at a camp. It's kind of daunting to think I'd have something worth saying, let alone 4 days worth of something worth saying. But we'll see if it all pans out. I'm hoping it will. Could be a cool cool opportunity.
For those of you who haven't heard the whole story, here's the last 6+ weeks of life. I was told I was being let go on May 31st from my church job, and then May 11th they changed their mind and decided to let me stay. So, I was leaving, but now I'm here to stay. It was a heck of a process to have to go through, but the thing that was interesting was the way people came alive over this deal.
I have to be honest, it was insanely humbling (almost awkward) to see kids in the youth and the parents and volunteers rally for me and work so hard to help me keep my job. But it was a good, constructive conversation on all sides, the kids, the parents, the church leadership, and we're all moving forward and doing our best to join in a great direction from here out.
I hope we can keep up this energy as we get further away from this thing. The challenge of something like this is that people got passionate about something, and great things came from it, and now we have the task of moving forward and seeing what else we can do; what else God can do through us if we get passionate like this. I'm hoping that we'll see some amazing stuff come out of this. I really do.
And so starts week one of camp for me next week. 2 more plus the possible partial week of speaking. It's going to be a big summer. Praying that I don't spread myself too thin. But I think if I'm working on being intentional, it'll work out. It's life, you know? Give & take, hope and fight, peace & pushing.
Live deeper.
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