Circle of Life Moments & Other Stuff
Yesterday I had the privilege of officiating at the wedding of a young man who was a member of my very first youth group. Fourteen years ago, I became the part-time youth director of a very small Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, FL . We had six kids in our group. On my last day four years later, there were almost fifty kids in attendance. All because of those original six kids---who are all grown up now, many of them with spouses and families of their own. It was a fine wedding. I stood there in the church where I preached my first sermon. It smelled the same---a combination of old wood and hymnals mixed with something else. Many of the same people were there, only older and grayer---just like me. It was a circle of life moment. As I drove around Tallahassee, which was my home for nearly five years, the memories of those early days in ministry came rushing back to me. Every corner we turned reminded me of that time of my life. T...