![]() ![]() Skipping a lot of details, I asked some questions that didn't go over too well because they challenged things. I was on my own for the first time, in a new city in a new state, where I knew no one. At the same time I was still figuring out life. I was confident and didn't need a ton of help or insight(if I had I would have asked for it). I had an idea what I was doing at this point, and things were happening with the teens and young adults that I was in charge of, but I wasn't doing things like they had been done for the last 50 years. At this point in my life I had a degree, had matured and started to learn who God really is and what He had intended for His Church. I worked for another guy in another church. I remember him telling me, "This is what I expect, I've never been a youth pastor I don't know how to help you" and left me to figure it out, and fail. Had a lot of expectations that a full time staff member would have had difficulty meeting in that situation, and offered no help. ![]() The guy I worked for wasn't very helpful. ![]() I was a full time college student who, at 19, thought he knew everything about ministry and the Church. The first church I worked at I wasn't ready for. Long story short I ended up losing my spot in the line up three weeks before the post season began to a kid who had never made his weight, had missed most of the practices, and was boarder line academically ineligible. I had a goal to be a State Champion, and honestly, I think I had a decent shot at it, but I never got the chance to find out. I wrestled, a sport I loved and picked up quickly. As I look at my wounds, mainly they have come from coaches and bosses. Some from a father, others from other men, some even from their mother. Some of us stitch them up and heal, others cover them with a band-aid and hide it from the world.Īll men have been wounded. All of us are wounded at some point, some multiple times. But this is something that every man faces. There is a lot here, and if I remember correctly there is more to come on this, and a lot of this chapter talks about more than the wound. At first glace there didn't seem to be all that much here, but on my second read through my mind struggled to wrap itself around the subject. I'm still trying to figure out how to tackle this chapter. "Every boy in his journey to become a man takes an arrow in the center of his heart, in the place of his strength. ![]()
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