My mission is to Glorify God and enjoy him forever, ministering to and making disciples of my family and the families of my church, community, and world.
I dream of my future. I imagine the steps I can take to Glorify God and to minister and wait on him for the cues.
I also recognize that his primary way to minister through me is by transforming me. I focus first and foremost on glorifying and enjoying him. He is my love and my life. May I ever draw closer to you my Dearest one!
He has placed in my heart a great desire to build relationships with people that will have the intimacy of family. He has called me to extend the intimacy of my dearest to them. This is a difficult call for me, though I want nothing more and with my whole being.
He has also graced me with a desire to lead children into the depths of his abundant life. My greatest privilege is to work with him to make disciples of my children Ella and Foster, along the dearest wife he could have given me.
He has made me a pastor, so I imagine myself bringing children and families in my church and community to be apprentices of the master of my heart.
He has also opened my eyes to the spiritual needs of children around the world. I relish my reverie when I imagine working on a PhD in cultural anthropology, transforming my mind to learn how to best bring about spiritual formation intergenerationally across culture. I imagine myself living on coffee plantations around the world as I learn how spiritual formation is done in those cultures. I imagine myself later teaching indigenous pastors how to best address the spiritual needs of children and their families.
I also secretly dream of one day doing nothing more than running a coffeehouse and acting as spiritual director. Perhaps one day...
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