Youth Retreat

A wise man once said you cannot deny who you are. Meaning, that what you are supposed to do, what you are good at, will happen whether you are deliberate or not; simply because it is who you are. I've pondered on this over the last few months. I work at a storage facility and have begun learning how to run a business. My brother, who is extremely intelligent and knows music like the back of his hand, works at a bank. I do not say this to belittle these jobs, I simply say they are not our passions.

Everyone around both of us tell us we should find jobs that ARE our passions, and who wouldn't agree with that? Yet, perhaps we are where we are for a reason; and they can't hinder our passions at all. My brother still sings in his spare time, almost as a part time job. And me? I've been playing on worship team at church almost every other week, but I haven't gotten involved in their youth program. Mostly I wanted to take a break but I also didn't know how I would do not being in charge, after being used to being in charge. Anyway, it wasn't enough, and now this coming weekend I get to go on a youth retreat with my old youth pastor and mentor.

This makes me excited beyond playing on a worship team. Not because I'm in charge, perhaps I was wrong about that and it's not a big deal and I should help out with the youth group at church, but no it's because it's youth ministry! Despite taking a forced break from youth ministry (God's force, I resigned) I am beginning to feel that hunger again. Perhaps I've been idle a bit too long, or I've just been down in the valley of darkness, or God's been trying to teach me a lot on his high mountain; I don't know where all I've been the last couple months but now I feel more than prepared.

Which brings another interesting point: now I have an interest in business. Not really in starting my own, but I've been here awhile and learned a lot and I look around and see/hear about bad managers and mistreatment of employees and it makes me want to DO something about it (I have an awesome manager btw). Perhaps this is a whole other blog I should save for later.

But this weekend I get to work within my passions: youth ministry and music. I'm excited to step back into that role, though it be for but a weekend, and hope to see kids lives transformed. I believe there is nothing more satisfying in this world than seeing a young person turn to Christ! If you haven't ever been part of that, get involved at whatever church you go to.

I'm excited and a little nervous for this weekend but I'm pretty sure it's going to be awesome! God is for us, so who could possibly be against us?