Immaterial Addictions

After many delays, set-backs, and unknowns, the adventure continues...


Due to lack of interest, Mission Year is not going to be sending a team to New Orleans for 2012. This was shocking news to me. Many of you may already know this and see this as old news but in some ways, I am still coming to terms with this revelation.

Upon first receiving the news, I was shocked. Almost all of the preparations had been made for my 2012 Mission Year term. Forms filled, letters sent, belongings winnowed. On top of that, there was the mental preparation for leaving the world I know for a world almost wholly unknown. I have never been much of a city person and I had come to realize how much I would miss the Northwoods. And the silence.

Over the last year, my life has changed dramatically. The year has required me to come to terms with what I view as important and what I can do without. For the most part, this included decisions being made about what exactly I need to survive. How much income do I really need to make? How many possessions do I really need to keep around? I don't consider wealth to be evil but it is not something that I will spend my life pursuing. We are called to be content whatever the circumstances and I am content with how things are. Then another string of questions hit me.

What about the things that I am attached to? What if I was required to give them up? Am I in a place where I can truthfully say that I am willing to choose God no matter what it costs me? What if I have to give up my godly dreams in order to truly seek God's Will for me? What if I never get to use what I think are my best talents? What if I am called to never settle but to spend my earthly life planting seeds that others will reap the harvest from? Would I still seek after God if everything I set my hands to becomes a failure?

God is love. He blesses His children above and beyond anything we can comprehend. The trouble comes in when I not only try and comprehend it but go a step beyond and try to predict it. I have no idea what God has in store for me. Though I am ready to settle down and have a "real" ministry and a "real" family and a "real" life, I know that this is where God has me. God knows where I am at. He knows what I need and when I need it. I need nothing beyond that.

Prayer:

A new series of support letters needs to go out. Informing everyone of the change that has taken place and how it will affect my work with Mission Year. Also, summer is coming, which means big things at Lake Ann Camp. I don't know in what capacity I will be serving but pray that I will use the summer to it's fullest extent for the Kingdom.