Being a Youth Pastor/Associate Pastor/Children's Pastor/and Missionary, there is little time to spend enjoying life. A life of service brings happiness, but true joy is found in honoring my wife, children, and God. I serve in Obedience to God, but if I do not take care of my wife and children and minister to them I fall short of the calling God has placed on my life...
I have served as a Full Time Youth Pastor for a little over ten years. Throughout those ten years my family has suffered from the lack of Daddy time. If my service to my youth take me away from my responsibility to love and cherrish every moment with my wife and children, then I fall short of what God has ultimately called me to. Moving back to Alaska, to Nome especially-I have learned what it means to take a brake and leave everything behind for a time to enjoy the moments of playing the sand. One of the most popular Christian poems is "footprints in the sand." It talks about Christ carrying us when times are hard and we don't have the sgtrength to walk on our own. Scripture tells of Jesus writing in the sand at the persecutors of the adultrous woman. Then there is a story of the house built on sand. Not that I am concentrated on sand. But not all that many months ago I was out playing on the beach with my wife and children. I looked back over where they had been and their footprints marked their path running spiratically in and out of the waves crashing on the beach.
In the midst of their laughter I was blessed beyond all measure and thrown into tears of joy. Walking hand in hand with my girls I realized more than ever the importance of those moments with them. My oldest daughter just turned five years old. Five years have gone by so very fast. Time goes by to quickly to give up the moments.
Watching my kids play in the sand sitting with my wife laughing as they screetched with joy throwing sand and water in the air, brought me the joy of a life long memory created. Those memories upon recall will bring me joy for the rest of my life...
So here's Big daddy saying: "Take some time to play in the sand!"
Blessings,
Mike III AKA: Big Daddy
Beach in Nome Alaska 2010
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