I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

Back to the blogspere after one years absence. And what a year it has been.

Got back from S.D.

Still spinning from personnel probs at church

Start work as hospital chaplain (They pay me in money - how peculiar)

Personnel probs apparently get better.

Extended Family in major crisis

Personal finances in the toilet

Church personnel abdication

Missing those who left nearly breaks me as I feel responsible (kinda get over it)

Almost lose daughter #2 because of surgical error (3 scary months and she's still not 100%)

I'm leaving 2 dozen cruddy things out of the list just because it's daunting.

During the last year I have learned a great deal about myself through God's chastening.

For a while I couldn't see much to like in myself but if Jesus was willing to die for me I gotta be worth something. Then came God's consolation- IT'S NOT ABOUT ME ! it's not about the things I suffer - It's about still being able to love God and others joyfully while going through a desolate period. I'M LEARNING !

Come with me on the journey - a simple life of loving and denying self - not so simple

GOING BIG