Musings of a Muddled Mess

I am young. Relatively so, but for the calling I feel God has on my life, I am young. Since I am young I struggle to be confident in my leadership abilities. There are always folks who have more experience, more insight, more whatever than I do. That being said I still have one thing on my side. I have confidence that God is calling me to do this, right here, right now. I got to thinking today about David. We all know that David was young and just a shepherd when he went and fought Goliath. I got to thinking about it a little differently today though. In 1 samuel 17 it talks about how saul was down in the heat of battle and Goliath had come out. It mentions very specifically that David's 3 oldest brothers were there and David went back and forth. This lasted 40 days. So for more than a month David is going to and from a battle field seeing his brothers, taking food, doing whatever he needs to but has yet to see Goliath come out and make his defiant call. Not that it isn't hap...

November has come and gone.  It's often a month of thanksgiving. Many of my family and friends have gone to doing a daily thing they are thankful for. I admire this, it's good to count our blessings. It helps remind us just how blessed we truly are, even in the tough stuff. A few years ago I tried it, but I felt like it wasn't honest. The truth is it is easy to recognize the big blessings but I have a lot harder time seeing all the little blessings in my life. Earlier in the month our pastor challenged us to count our blessings, make a list of what we are thankful for, or in some other way take some time to reflect on all the things we have to be thankful for. For several weeks now I have been trying to put my thoughts together and I am honestly still struggling. The truth is I have a really hard time "naming" my blessings. There are so many things in my life that I am thankful for it can be hard to make a list. so despite my struggle I am going to try, here we ...