Jesus Weeps
This blog post is obviously a long time coming. I haven’t written since January. This blog has a very different tone than the hopeful 24 year old you all saw as I started this new year. My life was very different then. I have so much to include, but I obviously can’t include it all. This is a deep theological reflection based on where I am in life right now, so most of the detail life event things come in list form towards the end of the blog. A couple things: 1) I’m sorry I did not write about my spring semester. It was the best yet, the best few months of my life actually, and someday I will have the strength to revisit that joy, but I do not have the strength to tell you those stories right now. 2) It is difficult to admit to a time of being in a depressive episode so shortly after leaving a position of prominent leadership, but it is also important to do so because my depression will go with me wherever I end up pastoring and it does not diminish my call or the effectiveness o...