Jesus is Coming

I would like to share some thoughts about Jesus Coming to be with us. But maybe I should give you some quick updates on my life. I have been doing really great and going through tons of transitions. I have one more week at Hamilton Reformed and so I have been packing up my office and my house, because I am out of both of those on Jan. 1st.
I have a job interview tonight actually at another church in this area. I don't know where I am moving yet, but I am moving a lot of my stuff to my parents house temporarily. I have been loving my time with kids in Hamilton and it looks like I will still be around Hamilton for this next semester AT LEAST. I am really trying to take tons of time Listening to God right now, making God my first priority and the source of all that I do. I am still planning on taking at least a week by myself at a prayer cabin or monastery (or both) to really listen to God more about the past, present, and future. I am really excited!

A few quick thoughts on Jesus coming. Jesus did come and will come again. Jesus is still alive! What does that mean for us today as we think of Jesus coming at Christmas as a wee little baby? How is this going to change our lives? When I thought about that question I thought of all the people wanting to see Jesus, to be healed by Jesus, to learn from Jesus. People wanting to sit at His feet, wanting to anoint Him. Jesus is God with Us. If God is still alive and with us I want to sit at His feet also. I want to kneel before Him and learn from Him. So Christmas means for me that I need to create space for this to happen, I need to put other things, tasks, people, even the God Honoring stuff aside and just BE with God.
This is hard to do, following Jesus isn't easy and isn't safe, but it is Good! Jesus came to show us a knew way and invite us to change, and change isn't easy and isn't liked. But, there is this Hope I have knowing that Jesus came, and is alive, and is coming again; a Hope that isn't blind or ignorant because I have already seen and experienced what God can do.
I wanted to let you listen to the song that has really been speaking to me, tearing me apart, healing me, and pushing me. I just found this video of the the National Youth Workers Convention that I was at in Cincinnati the weekend before Thanksgiving on YouTube. This is where this song really started working on me and made me vulnerable and let myself hurt. It beautifully broke me even before I knew that the day after I got back from this convention I was going to be asked to resign. God keeps working in great ways and is speaking, we just got to Listen and let God in to change us from within...