Hey, there! After a few days of musing, I have decided to table my efforts to write my second NaNoWriMo novel. I'm not giving up writing or anything. It's just in the last couple of days I've been led to other things. Back about a year ago, some of you may remember I started taking correspondance classes through Berean School of the Bible, an A/G program. Well, I breezed through my Intro to Pentecostal Doctrine class - got a 96 final average! Then I hit the second class on the Synoptic gospels. I'm not really sure what happened or how I got derailed, but I never finished. And the books kind of sat on my desk. I'd move them, look at them. Wonder where the excitement went. Put them down. Sigh. Walk away.
But this week, a lot has happened. Tricia and I were seriously considering ditching everything here and moving to Missouri so I could enroll at A/G Seminary. I'd quit my job, we'd sell the house, the whole enchilada. Life and people and situations and the threat of Governor Eliot Spitzer were all beating down on me and I figured it was just time to go. Tricia wasn't excited about it, but I really didn't think there was any other option. We've been hearing all these messages in church about leaving all, giving everything, going to the ends of the Earth. So it seemed like confirmation. Those books kept looking at me funny. Like I had the answer sitting in front of me and I was "too spiritual" to see it.
Then, I get an odd out-of-nowhere vote of confidence at work. Then an informational meeting is happening in two weeks about overseas adoption. Then we realize our church family is more important to us than we could've imagined. Little by little, those books are starting to speak..."Remember us? We're part of the plan. Study to show yourself approved!"
So it doesn't make all the sense in the world, but we're staying put. I'm still working for Hear For You. We're still at Calvary Tabernacle. We're letting our roots grow down and we're going to enjoy the journey. We're considering adoption. My son. Ministry? I've got a lot to learn. I'm not ready for the responsibility yet. God's not done on this "threshing floor" journey He's taking me/us on.
Something's going to happen in February. It's just an impression the Lord gave me months ago. Not sure what, but something. Stay tuned on that...
Oh, and that brings me back to NaNoWriMo. If I'm going to devote time to my classes (polish off the Synoptic Gospels class, go through the Book of Acts, then it's on to hermeneutics!) I need to put off other things for now. So no NaNoWriMo. Tricia's going to do it, though! I should set her up with a blog so she can post her stuff, too. Fifty bucks says she gets to 50,000 words!
Anyhow, that was my writing. Now for someone else's...go to www.jakecolsen.com. You will find there an intriguing book, "So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore?" written for the skeptic and searcher in all of us. It's posted on-line, so you don't even have to spend money and buy a book that will sit on your shelf and collect dust! I read the first chapter and was blown away by the down-to-earth style and refreshing honesty by the author(s). If you have a chance, check it out. And pass the link on...
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