At long las you got your E!
In completing my series about how I think God has SHAPEd me to be a
World Racer I want to spend some time thinking about my Experiences.
One purpose driven website states it this way, “God uses our
experiences to teach us to trust him, to build our character, and to accomplish
his purposes as we allow him to use our experiences to minister to others.
Since our greatest life message comes out of our weakness, not our strengths,
we need to take a good look at our painful experiences and what our trials have
taught us. God never wastes a hurt or bad experience. Along with these tough
times are other experiences to draw on: spiritual experiences (meaningful times
with God), educational experiences, and ways we have ministered in the past.”
I feel like I could write all day long about my experiences
but I won’t. If you have followed my
blogs then you already know about a lot of my experiences.
Some Cool Experiences:
I’m the baby of the family with 2 older sisters and a big brother. I became an Uncle at the age of 10 and so I’ve
loved having kids jumping on me for a long time now. I worked on a ranch in South
Dakota and for the US Fish & Wildlife Service in Alaska
while I was in college. I landed my
dream job with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks
right out of college.
Some Not So Cool Experiences: My parents divorced when I was in high
school. I didn’t like myself a whole lot growing up. Losing Kim certainly was a painful experience
but the loss only accentuates the blessing of the time I had with her.
Some Educational Experiences: I graduated at the top of the class from the
MS Law Enforcement Officer’s Training
Academy (Police
Academy). That was the first time I ever finished 1st
in anything! When I graduated from MSU I
was the first person in my family with a college degree. I have a Master of Divinity degree from New
Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Some Spiritual Experiences:
I recommitted my life to Christ while in college and got my first taste
of being discipled. I was called to
serve my first church bi-vocationally while I was working for the Dept. of
Wildlife and through that experience God called me to seminary and to Bayou
View Baptist Church
where I served 12 years as Assoc. Pastor and Student Minister.
So there you have a quick look at some of my life
experiences- the good, the bad, the ugly.
