End of an Era

Today is the last day of my twenties. Because I'm both obsessively self-absorbed and nostalgic, I thought I'd take a look back at all the things I've done in the past decade.

• Moved into a house with 12 guys (Iuka!)
• Got an editorial published in the OSU newspaper that angered a lot of my friends
• Made a terrible relational mistake
• Took a job with the OSU Athletic Department
• Spoke briefly at GCM's national conference
• Dropped out of ministry with New Life Church
• Graduated from OSU with a Theatre Degree
• Turned down a full time position with the OSU AD to move back to Toledo and help lead Unbound, a ministry to college students 
• Discovered my preaching gift
• Fell in and out of love
• Realized my call to ministry
• Made lifelong friends
• Took up photography
• Traveled across the country with Scott
• Received a vision to plant a church
• Enrolled at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Boston
• Nearly lost my mind the first semester
• Worked out a lot and got into great shape (those were the days)
• Spent a summer in Yosemite National Park
• Fell in love with Breena
• Asked Breena to marry me
• Got mono
• Married Breena
• Impregnated Breena
• Graduated from Gordon-Conwell with an M. Div and received an award for preaching excellence
• Watched Cyrus come into the world
• Failed at planting a church
• Took a job at a megachurch and moved to Columbus
• Impregnated Breena again
• Watched Eisley come into the world
• Quit my job
• Accepted new position at same church
• Impregnated Breena a third time

All that in ten years. It was a decade of becoming, and I'm grateful to God for his faithfulness to me. I look forward to the next ten years with hope and expectation.