I wrote this for the Adult Discipleship newsletter at my church; thought I’d share it here as another insight into the adventure I’ve been having the past few months. Here we go… When we hear the word “temptation” these days, it’s typically preceded by the word “chocolate.” The word has lost most of its cautionary status. But it’s dangerous to think that temptations to veer off God’s path for us, even slightly, aren’t very real…
(And now that I’ve typed that headline, I feel like I’ve oversold things. An inauspicious beginning, to be sure. But, here goes…) As some, but not many, people know, the last few months have been a bit of a roller coaster for me. I had an awesome job, which unfortunately got not-so-awesome for me around Christmas, and I decided (after lots of prayer and discernment) to leave it at the beginning of February. I’ve had…
I’m working on a new venture, one that has me scared and excited and (mostly) scared. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, and this afternoon I made a very important decision about this effort. I’m telling the voice in my head to kiss off. You know that voice – the one that says you’ll never succeed, that the odds are against you, that you don’t know what you’re doing, that you don’t have what…