Presby-Musings

A year ago this week, Merideth and I were in Chicago visiting friends when we decided to make an offer on a new house.  We believed that this house was our "dream" home, and we both bought and renovated it, thinking that we were going to be living in Florida indefinitely.  I was also serving as the pastor of a wonderful church where I believed I would be serving for years to come.   Fast forward a year...  As I write today's daily devotion, we are now living in Austin, Texas and are in the midst of negotiating the purchase of another dream home--complete with room for my parents to live with us, as well.  Additionally, I am already a month into what promises to be a long and fruitful season as pastor in a fantastic church in Austin.   When I think of all of the things that transpired to get us to this point, it's overwhelming.  Shakespeare was right, "What's past is prologue."  Our family can definitely see the hand of God at work in the am...

Christmas is over.   The day came and went in a flash.  After all of the preparation, the scrambling, the shopping, cooking, baking, driving to and fro, family gatherings, office parties, church services and late night wrapping sessions... It's over. And now comes the weird bit of time between Christmas and New Year's Day --A time when it seems like Christmas only it isn't.  It's a time when you don't really want to take down all of your Christmas decorations because you labored so long to put them up--but you also can't really stand hearing any more Christmas songs so there's that... The child was born, and now we'll move on...  at some point the decorations will be put away, the lights snuffed and everything will be stored in red and green rubbermaid boxes, which we'll heft up into the attic. If you think about the story of Christ's birth, though, it's not that dissimilar.  Sure, there was a ton of awesomeness that happene...