I feel like I need to update my friends, especially my friends on the Central Coast, on my current emotional and vocational health. As the beggar in "Holy Grail" says, "I'm feeling better...."
Recently, through a phone call from a 30-something who attends the same church I do, I was reminded that God continues to use me, even when I'm not in my "sweet spot". (By the way, can anyone point me to the Bible verse that says we get to work in our sweet spot. I can find the ones on faithfulness, responsibility and dependence, but I haven't located the one that promises we will always get to do the things we love in the way we want to.) In the call, he mentioned how God had used my work with the current elder board and my work with he and his peers as a master stroke in moving the church in the direction they need to go. My work with the elders created a group that the young guys would be willing to be part of and my work with the young guys helped the elders see that these were guys worth having on the board.
The funny part is that I didn't put the two ideas together. I saw the need to help the elders do a better job of "elding" and I saw the need to come alongside the young men, to encourage them to take on responsibilities within the church. Now that I've been helped to look back on what has happened, I see the wisdom of "working both sides", but at the time I just saw two needs I could help meet. Part of me wishes I had been smart enough to have thought this through and worked this plan. The other part of me is very grateful that I didn't, because then I can, with total honesty say, "This was a God-thing."
So, for my friends, I'm doing well... in spite of myself. Thanks for praying.
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