random musings

ok, so i was an idiot and prayed for God’s will for his life and his family. might as well go help him pack. and it’s not the first time that someone from the church with whom i’ve worked closely has gotten word that they are being transferred, or for some reason or other, are just moving away. ouch, that hurts! you build into someone and allow them to build into you. you open yourself up, and become vulnerable in ways that many passing by just don’t have the opportunity to access.

when the church was brand new, it was exciting. growing from a small core group, we saw the excitment in each other’s eyes. we saw hearts impacted and lives change. we saw an influx of people and energy and life. but as a church grows older — a healthy church, anyway — there comes a time when we must say goodbye to people that have ministered alongside us.

it’s easy to feel the onset of panic. big shoes are left to fill. as if God’s attention were so set on bentonville, or savannah, or plant city that this small but vibrant body in my community lay on His back burner. it’s also easy to see that as our lives have intertwined, as i have been impacted as well as many others, and as they have been impacted by those they have sojourned with here, that a piece of them remains in us, and us in them. that the God who fashioned the cosmos and chose to pitch his tent in me, is camped out in them as well. and maybe that’s the way the kingdom of heaven works. that as God works in us, and as we follow His leading, that pieces of us end up in the oddest places, the world over.

to those who’ve come and stayed and gone, you’ll be missed! we’ll catch up later…