To Be or Not To Be...

About two years ago, I started to really struggle with doing Youth Ministry and having a passion for it. I had been doing it for a while and thought I was just going through a reevaluation time and that I could find the passion again. So through a bunch of prayer and evaluation, my wife and I felt God was asking us to stay and keep going. So we started diving into it again...but we knew things were going to be different because we were starting a family. 

But then, in March of 2015, everything began to change. I had an annual performance review that had come up, and I knew in my heart what the results of this were going to be. You see, God was prepping my heart long before my meeting with my leadership. In that review were some tells of where my heart really was. God was releasing me, and it was now coming to light. That meeting with leadership was one of the most frightening, nerve racking, but yet freeing and peaceful times I have ever experienced. At that time I was able to clearly see what God was asking me to do. I needed to fully trust Him with both the ministry and my family. He was asking me to step down from the ministry. 

Now this was a huge huge deal for me, I'm the kind of person that likes being in control. God was asking me to relinquish ALL control! So, with church leadership, we began the process...and 'the peace of Christ that surpasses all understanding' was upon me and my family. 

And so, September 1st, just over a month before our second child was due to arrive into this world, I became a stay at home dad...

And so begins the next chapter of our life! 

Our father in heaven giving us peace in this time was just the first of many ways we would be finding out that the promises of Scripture are true. 

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Enjoy life and be encouraged!