How to Work a Job You are Not Called To

   So people ask me how my job is going at UPS, and I tell them it is going good. While this is true it is definitely not something I am excited about. So why do I do it? For her. You see my wife and I decided to get married while we are still both in college, so I don't have the luxury to work however few hours I would want to at whatever job I wanted to or could get because now there are bills to pay. So my wife and I have to work to pay the bills. And there are many days that we say that we really don't want to go to work, and it's true. I wish I could say I go to work because I am passionate about loading boxes to be delivered, or to say that I do it to be involved in the community, or even to say I go to work because it is a great place to do ministry (which it is), but that isn't why I do it. I go to work for her. My wife is the only reason that I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. If we were not married at this time, there is no way I would be working there. I have to tell myself regularly that this won't be my job forever, it is just to pay the bills while we are in school. I am not saying that I have it hard, we have been incredibly blessed, and UPS really is a good place to work, but it is not what I am called to do, it is my job, but only for now. I am called to be in full time ministry. That is my calling and what I love to do. And I know that I will get to do that someday soon. For now though, I will keep waking up at 3:30 in the morning, get dressed, and go to work, and it will all be because of her.

Numero Uno

      There once was a little boy, he grew up and fell in love with the girl he had known his whole life. Then they got married. Now he is writing this blog as a way of simply being real. This is not something I am doing because I just want to talk about myself, but I can express myself through words and think that it could be good to have something like this for me. Maybe I will say something you don't like or agree with, maybe you will just read this and be bored already, but the fact of the matter is, this is me. I don't want to wear my heart on my sleeve, but I also want to talk about real stuff that is happening, that I think about, that I think might be worth sharing. So here we go...