In 24 hours I'm leaving California and starting over. At 28, I find myself moving back in with my parents, looking for a job, and with not much to my name. Pretty much like I was when I moved home after college. And yet not at all like when I moved home after college - then I was 22 and had very little to complain about in my life and everything to look forward to. At 28, I'm coming home as my 4-year marriage is ending and my first full-time ministry job has ended because of it. I'm coming home wounded and broken and more aware than I've ever been of my weakness and my sin.
So I'm starting over. I'm starting over in life, and I'm asking God to show me who I am as He sees me... apart from the roles I've had as a "pastor" and as a "husband"... who am I? One thing I know I need to be about is writing, so I'm also starting over (for the umpteenth time) on this blog, and committing to being regular with it. So for now I've got 24 more hours of wrapping up my life here, spending last time with the people who've been my support system and surrogate family out here, then I've got 3 days of driving (thankfully with one of those friends). I'm starting over.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
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Mike, keep blogging. When you reach out, you'll find God in the people around you.
ReplyDeleteAngie J, (from indy)
ps I LOVE your new song!!
Thought I would just say hello. It's Katie (Gibson), I sang with you at Encounter forever ago when I think you must have given me the link to this blog and I've had it sitting in my favorites bar ever since. Of course I didn't check it too often when I realized you updated every 5 or 6 months it seemed ;-)
ReplyDeleteI'm actually newly married as of September 08. I think you can see what's left of my blog attached to my profile.
Hope you're doing ok though. I will be thinking/praying for you.
Oh yeah, check out www.andyneedham.net
ReplyDeleteI assume you're still writing music based and everything... I've been a part of this band/worship team since 2002 or so. It used to be called Arise but now we're going under the lead singer/songwriter's name- Andy Needham. There's some good stuff, some of it on itunes too.