I Have No Business...

I have no business…

     There is an interesting fact that has been a re-occurring theme in my life in many ways. And that is, that there are many times when I have found myself saying, I have no business being in the place that I am, doing the things that I’m doing. In my “professional” life shortly after my short lived educational career in audio engineering I found myself landing a job at a recording studio, where I was severely out-engineered by my new boss. I found myself thinking, I have no business working the sessions that I am right now, after all I had only “been” a recording engineer for a short, but intense 5 weeks during my training. But I was always a quick learner and I soon began to hold my own.
Shortly after landing that job, I found myself standing on a stage no more than five feet away from the great classical cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, who was asking my opinion of the mic choice he had made. This was my FIRST live sound gig, I thought again, I have NO business offering or even forming an opinion here! But, there I was.

   

 And so I find myself in a much different place in life, but as I have in the past, I often hear the same refrain that seems to have become my theme. Nearly a year and a half ago I was approached by our newly appointed Sr. Pastor, and asked to step into a role that I am not educated or trained for, the role of Youth Director. I have found in my time on this planet, that when God asks, the answer is always “Yes.”. So here I am, charged with the teaching, and spiritual guidance, of a fantastic group of teenagers, a group to whom I’m no stranger, being a long time volunteer along with my wife. But this new role has introduced new challenges, opportunities, rewards, struggles, and the need to take up juggling as a pastime. I’m what the industry folks call “Bi-vocational” which means I hold a full-time job during the day, and do ministry “part-time”. And that is really why I’ve started this blog, for those of us who fully understand the reason I put the words “part-time” in quotations, because we understand that ministry is not so much something we do, but more so who we are. That while we clock in and out of our day jobs, or our office hours in the church building, God has not put a time clock in our hearts.  I hope for this to be a place for us to build community, give and receive advice, share life stories and give each other cyber high-fives for the victories in our lives, and ministries.

     So here I go again, but, I have no business writing a blog, seriously. I could probably count on 2 hands the total blog posts that I’ve read.., My laptop still thinks that blog is a typo and gives it a red underline even at this moment! But I’ve felt God tugging at me to start writing, and to share with others the things that are on my heart and in my head, so here I am, again.

    I don’t pretend to have all the right answers or even to know if there is a right answer, I don’t pretend to have it all figured out. But as I go through my day to day life, I will share with you all of, my incites, ideas, and inspirations along the way. And hope that you will too!

Thanks for reading!

Blessings,


Jeremiah