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I remember what I wanted to say last night! I was so tired from rehearsal and what not I forgot it. Ok, a little back story first. I went to the new life school of worship one year ago, meaning that my class graduated, and another has graduated since then. After each school year the staff of NLSW post the resumes of all the graduating students on their website so churches can look for worship pastors. Good idea? Yes, if the site didn't take 41 years to load, and I wasn't at the bottom of it (alphabetical order). Remember this, It will come into play soon enough. After I graduated I tried to find a job, but didn't find anything. After a while I got into a bit of a rut. I wasn't working, and I was sort of trying to find a job. I was just floating through life with no real motivation.
Eventually I got fed up with it, got motivated, re-wrote my resume, and started sending it out to any and every church that needed a worship pastor. It was during this time that Next Level got their hands on a copy of my resume, but it wasn't the resume I was sending out. It was the resume from the NLSW website.

Here's why this is significant

First, as I already said, the website was poorly put together, and took a lot of patience to get fully loaded. Secondly, another years worth of students had been posted since mine, meaning ANOTHER insanely slow page had to be waded through. Thirdly, there are several much more qualified individuals in my class alone, and who knows about the following class. Lastly, the resume they had online for me was a joke. The one I had been sending out was much better. Up until last night I had assumed that NLC had just gotten one of the resumes I had been sending out (I wasn't keeping awesome records of who had and hadn't gotten it. Plus I couldn't imagine anyone getting the rez of my NLSW page would actually call). What I also didn't know was that several of my class mates, and students from the year after had already been contacted, and even come out to interview for this position, but I was the only one NLC felt comfortable with.

Okay, that's neat so what's this "big spiritual insight"

It's not as epic as I thought it was last night, but it's still pretty cool.

Firstly it proves that my being here wasn't an accident, and has been perfectly orchestrated. Secondly, I find it very interesting that It happened when I finally started making a good effort. True it wasn't a direct result of my effort, but the timing reveals some interesting truths. During the year I wasn't doing much of anything I did pray. I prayed hard for the right position to come along, but that's all I did. Nothing wrong with prayer, but I wasn't doing "my share of the work". Asking for something over and over again and expecting God to drop it in your lap is unrealistic, and I that is what he was trying to show me. God answers prayer, but it requires an effort on our part. It was planned, and orchestrated so that once I finally started putting a good effort into finding a job, one found me. It wasn't until I started doing something instead of praying, and feeling sorry for myself, that God aloud a work to take place.

So there it is. There's the spiritual truth. God doesn't work with people that aren't willing to try; aren't willing to walk the path so he can direct them. The path is full of obstacles, but God can't help you over them if all you do is sit and stare at them, and ask God to put you on the other side.

Deep huh? That's why I went to school. (hint of sarcasm)


I got a key to Kaleo (the coffee house) today. It's shiney and new. I have to go there now and make deliciouse beverages.
Goodnight/day/afternoon

Ps. This was written on the toilet. Is it somehow less profound now?