Good to be back!

I'm Baaaacckk!!!

It felt so good to be getting back into Children's Ministry this morning. I have kind of been on a little break doing some praying and thinking about where God wanted me to go, and what He wanted me to do.

Today I started back in CM at Crossroads Church in Thornton, CO. I look forward to getting more involved, and the possibility of working into a possible intern type position if God sees fit.

I am still open to His calling, if He sees fit to lead me elsewhere, but know I will enjoy learning more from a great group of Children's workers until He does.

I'll keep ya posted!

Just Hanging out with God!

Just the other day I was sitting in bed reading a book, Yes, me, reading. I know what you're thinking, is this a fictional story? Brent Doesn’t read books. Ok I admit, I am not the most well read person you may know, but that is one of my resolutions this year to read at least one book a month, and so far, I am off to a good start. I just need to FOCUS!!! Speaking of focus . . .  So I was reading a book, and my wife, Krystal, was getting ready to head up to give our daughter a bath, and take a shower herself. In doing so, she was leaving our three boys to play just outside our bedroom. As she did, she gave instruction to the two oldest to play with and keep an eye on their younger brother.

As we all did when we were put in charge of a younger sibling to “babysit”, they gave their little groan, but then began to “play” with Cayden. It started out at first with both of them practically throwing things in his lap. “Here Cayden do this.” “Cayden watch!” All the while, Cayden was just interested in hanging out. He was content with gnawing on his little plastic hotdog. Not playing with the rubber blocks that Brodie was now stacking by himself, or the My Little Pony (just to clear things up, some of Chailey’s toys were out too) that Zayne was contently brushing the hair. Cayden just wanted to hang out with his two big brothers, not be bombarded with what they wanted him to do.

Watching this reminded me of us as Christians. Although, not the older siblings, or the ones “in charge”,  we want to be around God, and Him to be around us. We start out all gung ho trying to get God’s attention. Serving in church, helping others, reading our Bible, on and on, but before long, we feel we are not getting the results we expect or wanted, and we start to just do things on our own, for ourselves. Sometimes we forget God is even there.

It reminds me of the verse in Psalms 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God; . . .” Sometimes God just wants to hang out with us. We don’t have to have anything to do, we just need to be in each other’s presence. It reminds me of when we are all first engaged to the person we are going to marry. Krystal and I didn’t always have to go do something, sometimes we just hung out. We would sit and talk to each other for hours. Just being with each other.

Are you tired of “playing by yourself?” Maybe you need to just hang out with God for a while!

My Blogger Resolution for 2010

So along with the plans to lose weight, read more, work out regularly, etc., I have also decided that I want to Blog more this year as well. I will be attempting to do at least 2 Blogs a month, unless something else takes my fancy as well. In that case you might just hear more from the inner-workings of that slab of goo between my ears I call my noggin.

Shortly you will see my first Blog of the year. It have had it done for a few days, but have failed to post it until now.

Maybe one of those resolutions should have been to work on my procrastination . . . naw, maybe I'll work on that next year.  ;-)