New Beginnings...

This weekend I had the absolute privilege to officiate another wedding for some dear friends from the church we helped plant. The wedding took place up in Northern California and truly was beautiful. Seeing and vicariously experiencing this new beginning was once again an eye opening opportunity for both Debbie and I.

The fascinating thing about the experience for Deb and I began when we checked our own hearts as I played this role in shooting the starting gun for this young couple's matrimony. As Debbie and I continue to attempt to peer into the future for SOME idea of what we would like to see happen in our lives, speaking into the hearts and minds of this bride and groom during their ceremony as they are just getting started in this process REALLY brought some significant questions to mind.

"If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you like to live?"

"Is there some other job or mission you could see yourself doing either here or somewhere else in the world?"

"How is your spiritual life right now and what needs to happen to place you where you would feel the most in-line with God's intent for your life?"

Of course these are the kinds of questions we've been asking ourselves for the last several months as we recover from all we've been through, but there's something much more jarring about these questions now as we see two young birds being kicked out of their nest together for the first time. Here Deb and I are coming up on our SIXTEENTH wedding anniversary! We've had TOO many of these existence changing opportunities that have tweaked our understanding of life to NOT know how to land well after a good nest kicking. Yet, for some reason we still feel WAY outside our familiar bearings to know what we're supposed to be doing.

So, we continue doing what we're doing and enjoying the ride as we keep our eyes out for some obvious call from God to where He wants us doing what He wants us to be doing!