A Personal Note

I realized halfway through the day that I needed to write a blog post. Normally I would be thinking about it throughout the week but it hadn't even occurred to me. Then I logged onto the website and realized I never posted anything last week. These two occurrences made me realize just how distracted I've been lately.

You guys, let me be honest, I love writing this blog. When someone sends me a note telling me that something I wrote made them laugh, or smile or touched their heart in some way it means the world to me. However lately I've had a lot of other things going on and today I want to share with you guys a little bit about that.

At the beginning of the year I knew that 2019 would have a lot of changes. I never imagined how many. In April my roommates and I moved, by June I had resigned my position as youth director at my church and started looking for a new church to attend. I left on good terms and with the support of the church leadership. The kids in our youth group had graduated and the ones coming up were much younger. I love working with high school students, the students coming up were primarily middle school students and needed a different kind of program to meet their needs. So after a lot of prayer I made the decision to step down. Since I was already stepping down I made the decision, again with lots of prayer and advice from wise counsel, to leave and find a new church home that I could serve in.

That decision has led to several months of me looking for a new church. Finally I'm close to finding a new church home. And now another change has come up. Some of you will remember a couple of years ago when my family's business shut down. Now the company I've been working for over the last year and a half is also being shut down. So now, as I'm settled in my new house, close to finding a new church I'm getting ready to look for a new job.

There's been a lot of other changes in 2019 but those are the big highlights. You guys, my readers, are made up of my friends and family as well as strangers from all over the world but whether I know you or not, you're all important to me, extremely important. And it's because you're so important that I wanted to explain just a little bit about why I've been distracted so that posts are going up late or missing altogether. 

Thank you friends, for understanding my distraction and giving me grace. Hopefully things will be getting back to normal, or at least back to a normal level of distraction so I can post on time, very soon.