I Know What I Was Made To Do

About my junior year in college, I was having a conversation with my Mom. I knew the Lord had called me into youth ministry and I had decided that was the career path I was going to pursue. My Mom pointed out how that was a little ironic since I was not a natural people-person and since I was a homebody. But we talked about how God equips you to do what He has called you to do, and I think my time as a youth pastor was testament to that very thing.

As a youth pastor, I was bit of an anomaly because I was organized and could administrate things. Not many of my youth pastor friends could do this, and to be honest, even fewer of them cared that they could not! And then, a couple years ago, the Lord changed my heart and my ministry and I transitioned to become the Administrative Pastor at our church. Now that I've been doing this for two years, it feels like this is a more "natural" fit for the gifts God has given me although I am so very thankful for my 15 years and youth pastor and have no doubt I was doing what God wanted me to be doing at the time.

But as natural my career seems, I have found something even better. I have found something that fits my heart's desire like an Isotoner glove fits your hand...I am a Daddy. My eyes are tearing up just sitting here thinking about it. When I first got married, I didn't want to have kids. It wasn't like "I never want kids", I just wasn't in a hurry. And then, only a few months before we found out Brooke was pregnant, something had begun to change in my heart. And then, when I found out I was going to be a Daddy, there was this overwhelming desire to be Daddy to a little girl. And God heard my heart's desire and answered it. If I had to choose just one thing that I think God created me to do in this life, I would have to say it was to be Amanda Kay's Daddy. Of course I couldn't do this without the love of my life, Brooke who is the greatest Mommy to our little girl. We're a team, and it's been quite an adventure!

So why the sudden pouring out of my heart amidst all of my political, anti-monopoly and dumb joke postings? It's because of this song by Rodney Atkins. Brooke listens to 99.5 The Wolf, so it is always on the car and I've been leaving it on recently. There is this song, Watching You, that can make me tear up every time if I let it. He's got a son and not a daughter, but his song is about the awesome privilege and responsibility of being a father. There's just not too much that can beat that. So anyway, here's the video if you want to watch it. If you're a Daddy, I think it will tug at your heart, too.