New Year=New Life

I wonder how many blogs will be titled "New Year"?


I am not going to have any resolutions for the year 2009. I think its a foolish idea to have resolutions. Everyone knows that they are what we should have done last year but were too lazy to try. Besides that, we'll quit them two weeks into the year anyway. So why bother?


I titled this blog "New Year=New Life" because that is literally what will happen to me. I am going to have a new life in 2009. I have been chosen to be the youth pastor at First Assembly of God in Tyler, TX and am moving there on the fifth of January. This is a giant leap for my future and am glad that God is leading me into new places of ministry. It is one of the oldest A/G churches in existence, but is going through a complete overhaul. They are building a brand spanking new building and I'm getting in on the ground floor. So, yay for me.

I am also getting married sometime this year. BIG change of pace for my life. I don't know when I'm to be married but it will be sometime this year. The joys and stress of planning a marriage, moving to a new location, starting a new job, and trying to balance everything and everyone have begun to make me crazy. I'm happy, don't get me wrong, but it is a tremendous load of stress also.

I never complain about being stressed. I find it so annoying when someone does. Everyone has stress. Deal with it. So, every time you ask me how I'm doing, I will answer "I'm great!".

Anyway, enough about my stress soapbox. I hope everyone has a great year and that you will pray for mine. I'll need it.