Hello All! I have started to write about 4 posts in the last week, but keep not finishing them then deleting them. Basically, my life has been changing a ton lately, but for the most part those changes have been really good. June 25th was my last day as a youth director. I don’t miss the job and the stress at all, but I am struggling with missing the youth. It’s odd to go from seeing certain kids almost every day to occasionally running into them in the supermarket. God has provided an amazing temporary job for me doing tech support at a digital media company. In the last few weeks I’ve gone from thinking a mouse was that creature living in the game closet of the youth room to being able to trouble shoot a computer. Ok, maybe I wasn’t that bad at computers, but I just never took the time to learn about them.
It’s actually really fun to learn something new. I’ve also really seen my energy level go up in the last few weeks. I was getting really burnt out of church work and needed some time to decompress. Even though I’ve been working every day it feels like vacation to me because I leave at 5 and the job is done for the night. No phone calls, no stressing, no volunteers saying they can’t make it, etc. Because of these changes it’s finally starting to become real to me that we are leaving next year. In a way I am grieving the things and the people I will miss, but my excitement overshadows all of that. It’s nice to have the time to pray and prepare for this trip. I can’t wait to get to know you all this fall. It’s so wonderful to read about your lives through this site!
