where i’m from- growing up in a broken home in the middle of north
carolina, church just wasn’t our deal. i mean we went, maybe once every other month, only because it was just something that “good people” do. as a child and all the way through my teenage years, i had no idea of even the possibility of having an intimate relationship with Christ.
my mom worked hard to support my sister and i. we never had much, but we always had what we needed. at times during my childhood, mom worked two or three jobs, sometimes leaving the house at 7:45am not to return until 10 or 11pm. we moved from apartment to mobile home to apartment to rented house and so on. in the first 18 years of my life, we lived in 10 different places…all in the same county…think about that. no stability. no roots. no permanency. no God. thankfully, the story doesn’t end there!
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where i am-in 1997, God blessed me with an amazingly supportive wife. apparently she and i mix pretty well because God has used the two of us to create five (yes, that’s right, 5) of the most beautiful little baby humans He’s ever knit together! and i’m not just saying that. we live in orlando, fl which is one of those hometowns that people seem to get excited about. let me make this clear, we don’t exactly sleep in cinderella’s castle every night, but it is still the happiest place on earth!
being a husband is a wonderfully important gift. partnering with my bride to parent five members of the next generation is a magnificently taxing joy. walking this planet as a child of the one and only living God is a blessing beyond what i deserve.
where i’m going- in a word, i have no idea! that’s the awesome part! somebody once said…i think it was me…that the safest place you can possibly be and at the same time, the most dangerous place you can possibly be are actually one.
the center of God’s will is both undeniable in its security and unnerving in its intrigue. i have been asked many times where i “see myself” in 5 years. that’s a beautifully sensible question to ask if you’re a shoe salesman or c.p.a. or maybe even a pastor, i suppose, but if you’re a child of God who desires the sold-out expression Christ asks for, can you hope to give any kind of practical response to that query?
i’ll just try to say “yes, Sir” to Him today. and i’ll try the same thing tomorrow and hopefully the same thing the day after that. and in time, He will have accomplished what He has crafted me for. and that will be greater than anything i might have dreamed of or even imagined on my own.
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