One Year

It was a year ago today that I started sending out resumes for ministry positions, and I'm honestly not sure how I feel about that. In the last 365 days, we went from a family of two to a family of three, I added an M.Div to the end of my name and we've seen the nature of our ministry in Louisville change and taper off. The last year has been a mix of incredibly exciting events and difficult challenges, a pattern that I am sure won't change much in the coming months.

It's tempting to be discouraged when I remember how optimistic I was as I sent off my first resume on November 2, 2009 to New Hope Baptist Church in Pelzer, SC. It really does seem like that was forever ago, and in moments of weakness I wonder when this time of waiting will ever end. But God has been so faithful in our lives over the past twelve months. I think about the incredible ways that God has provided for us financially, the deep and enriching relationships that have ministered to us in the last year and the story of Aiden's birth.

When I look back all of this, how can I not trust that the Lord will continue to be faithful? As we begin to face the possibility that Kristen may have to return to work in a few weeks and wonder how we might be able to make that work, He is faithful. As I wait to hear back from the many churches still holding and considering my resume, He is faithful. As this time of waiting stretches past one year, God will continue to be faithful. Please pray with us that we would remember, celebrate and trust in this truth.

²³Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.
-I Thessalonians 5:23-24