You've been on quite a journey my friend, a pretty hard one that is for sure! After the announcement made on Friday and the difficulty it must have brought to wrestle with the why question. Why is it that just as you are able to step in and speak so well into various church contexts (I am so grateful for the sound counsel you have given me), God calls for a bit of time out? We can never answer the questions fully, but through your latter blogs you've worked it through, I've seen the weave of the "Ah-huh"! glimpsing through your thoughts. Thank you for not working through this alone, but casting your wonderings out for us to read and interract with.

I'm fairly confident that rather than being so upfront at College, and standing in the background cheering the team on, this service that you speak about will flow through as prayerful support for our friends who lead us, for wise cousel offered, for the right questions asked. You are a gift Meredith. You have never had to prove yourself in my eyes, because you are just you, a wonderful man who has a heart for the Kingdom, and has been called to us for this time.

Again, Meredith, thank you for your prompts. I have more thoughts, but am finding it difficult to write them to make any sense, so rather than rambling will leave it there for now.