Write About Now

When my friend Kari and I turned 30 a few months ago, we each made a list of the fun, not-so-fun, memorable and more mundane things we’d experienced in our first three decades. We spent a wonderful long evening sharing our lists with each other, laughing, crying, and talking about what we’d like the next thirty years to hold.

Neither my “What I did with my first thirty years” nor my “What I hope to do next” lists included losing my job due to downsizing, but life doesn’t usually follow a script. So, yesterday, my position and several others were eliminated and I am suddenly among the ranks of the unemployed.

I am experiencing a strange mixture of emotions including sadness, fear, anger, and even excitement over what comes next. So over the next few weeks, as Arron blogs about choosing to leave his current ministry and join a new one, I’ll be blogging about the experience of doing the same—but without the element of choice.

Actually, Arron, does your new church need anyone else???