Looking Forward To Tonight

So Thursday is quite possibly my best and worst day of each week.  Every Thursday morning I think about how much I could be a better youth pastor.  "I should have talked to the teens more this week, should have done another event, should've studied more....I hope teens show up".  Every week this is what I go through.  Then when the afternoon rolls around I get so freaking hyped for The Pointe.  I can't wait to see who's going to be there and be a part of what's going on.  We have so much planned and we want everything to work.


Ultimately it comes down to the fact that God has placed a burden on my heart and the heart of my wife to see teenagers lives get changed for the glory of God.  There is all kinds of emotions mixed in with our burdens, but we all have to learn how to manage them.  If I let my burden get the best of me in a bad way then every Thursday I would be down on the world (which occasionally does happen).  The real glory of God is shown when we let our burden move us to action and to an excitement that is attached to the anticipation of what God is about to do.