Youth Pastor's Life

Puzzles!! The sound of that word either makes a person smile with pure joy or it will make them run in pure fear. I personally am the first person. I LOVE puzzles. Most times when I sit down to work on one, I become lost in it. The world quits spinning and nothing else seems to matter. Speaking with a friend about puzzles, we joked that when a person loves puzzles you tend to forget to eat, shower, and sleep. Any 'normal' activity that one should accomplish in a day goes to the wayside. Nothing matters but the completion of that particular puzzle. Now you may be wondering why I choose to write about puzzles. And if you have read any of my other posts, you know I write about how and what God's has been teaching and speaking to me about. Hang in there and I promise there is a good illustration/learning moment that God spoke to me and hopefully will speak to your soul/spirit. I feel as if I need to back up a bit and explain where and how my love for puzzles came from. My l

Tonight this question was posed to me "What is your World Cup Dream today?" I stopped and allowed the question to sink into my being before replying and again silently asked this question to myself. "What does my World Cup dream look like right now to me". After what seemed like minutes passing by with all eyes on me, I replied while pointing to one of the young men in my youth group "they are. My World Cup dream is seeing each one of my youth students to grow and mature into the young men and women that God has created them to be and to see them change the world around them". That's my 2018 World Cup Dream. As a child I dreamed of playing in the World Cup, and of course winning it, and becoming just like Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain, Briana Scurry. To play on the world's largest stage and to successfully win "it all" just like they did in 1999. Along with that dream was the dream to be a FBI agent and/or a police officer. As I grew old th