'Tis the Season for Updates // Making Moves

Well, well, well... fancy meeting you here.

I realize that I've been M.I.A. for a couple weeks now and haven't been updating you very much either. So, I have decided that now, on this Sunday, would be a good time to do just that. A lot has been happening in the life of this pastor's husband, and I want to let you know what those things are. However, the question is, where to begin? Let's just make a list and see where that gets us!

1. I have been doing a long term substitute job since before Christmas, and it is coming to a close this week.
2. I have officially mailed the paper work to begin the entrancing process for becoming a Pastor.
3. Instead of writing devotions for the past couple of weeks I wrote my entrancing essay, and was lazy for a day.
4. Lent has begun and I have wanted to do any number of things as a spiritual discipline, but haven't really landed on anything in particular.
5. We bought a brand new, 2017, car. The first brand new car of my entire life.
6. We are planning a trip to California.
7. I am visiting Wartburg and Luther Seminaries in the "final" steps in my discernment journey.
8. My wife and I are starting to push forward with some difficult conversations: relocating, having kids, making more life together.
9. I'm struggling to stay ahead of the reading game, consistently falling behind on my Goodreads count.

So, that wasn't as meaningful as I would have hoped, and it didn't really update you on any meaningful piece of information. However, it is something of an update. I could take the time to expand on each of the things listed above, but I'm not feeling it tonight. I'm not really sure what it is that has been going through my mind as of late. There has been so many things going on, personally, professionally, spiritually, mentally and emotionally. In order to really capture the essence of what has been going on, to really update you, it would take a long time and a lot of words. However, considering I'm not sure how many people are actually going to read this, I can't be sure how many words I want to put on this screen.

Let us just say this. In the coming days I am going to need your prayer and support as my wife and I take steps together down this new life path. She is finding her place as a pastor, I'm starting down a similar path, and we're both trying to figure out what it all means and what it will look like--together. It is my hope that in the upcoming days I will get back on the update train, the devotional production, and hopefully start advancing some of my other project ideas that have been floating around in my head for a while. Now, we all know that talk is cheap and my follow through isn't very good. So, we shall see what comes of this next stage of the journey.

We'll see. Together.

Sincerely,
A Pastor's Husband