Great news

Bet you thought it was about me! No, it isn't - that front is quite bleak for me. However, Mary is moving up on a fast track at Whole Foods. She will be on a program for a leadership type position there. That is awesome news. Not too surprising to me. She has always been an incredible worker and very dependible. It's cool that they recognize it this soon. Also, Katrina has finally got a job working at Subway near our house. She should be starting soon. So, those things are really good for them. For me, things have been a bit discouraging the last couple days - until God reminded me again of Joshua 1:9: "do not be discouraged for I am the Lord your God...". Ok, I will hang in there.

Tomorrow night I am going to be playing at CCC again. It is at Celebrate the Journey. To be honest, the catalyst for doing it centered upon making a DVD of me worship leading. Some churches need that. Incredible that in 10 years of playing at CCC I have no video of me worship leading! Plenty of me just playing guitar but something more is needed for the video.

But I have come to learn more since deciding to do it. I think I have come to a sort of peace with some things. I am still upset about what happened but there was something I realized a little while ago. I think that this is something important so bear with me. I am not certain yet if a position at another church is for me. I will look. However, when I was working at CCC, it wasn't about the job. It was about serving. Serving the community. Would a job at another church be just a fun job? I don't know. After these last few weeks, seeing how so many people would come together to see about helping my family and myself, I know that the community of Christ followers that we all are is much bigger than the institution of the church. If CCC were to close its doors tomorrow, I think that most in the community would remain in tact in one way or another - remain together watching everyone's back, helping, serving and loving God and people. Kind of like in Acts 2:42-47. So many out here in Romeoville are like our family to us. I need to continue to serve. It is what God would want me to do. He gave me these gifts, I need to use them. Give back to all those who have given to us. When I go to the Sunday service and look at all the faces out there, I realize that I need to continue the mission God gave me. Now, I still don't know where things will end up. However, I do know that in the here and now, I know part of what I must do. So, although I do need to video tomorrow, I think that the bigger thing is to just get back into doing what I do best. Not to mention I need to stay in practice - just in case God does send me to some other church! So, if things go well tomorrow, I might get back on the schedule at Romeoville. It still might be hard, but I know that is what He wants me to do right now. He has used me and my gift of music to reach so many people, how can I stop doing that? Another soul can be touched. That means a lot.

Another thing that I will get back to is helping and working on the new artists website for Romeoville. I had lunch with Bryan today and I think that I will get on that as soon as possible. I mean, come on, there were so many months working stuff out on that site that I need to see it through! I hate leaving things halfway done! So I am going to be back. The only thing that would stop me is another church job.

One last thing, I did say that I understood about what the community was about. No, that isn't entirely accurate. I can say that I feel what it is about. Really deep in my heart. And that is an encouraging thought...