MomminginMinistry

Our San Diego Vacation was absolutely amazing...until it wasn't. Maybe God is trying to show me that just because something doesn't end well doesn't mean it wasn't well. Sometimes it's easy to sum up an entire experience by it's last few minutes, and throw out the memories and chalk it up as a loss. I suppose I'm not just talking about vacation anymore...but I will attempt to stay on topic. Let's address how vacation ended before rewinding to how it started. Pull off the band-aid. On Wednesday, Daniel wasn't feeling great. Maybe I didn't want to be honest with myself. But there were a million reasons to diagnose him with exhaustion from a long day of swimming and fishing in the sun and waves, allergies which have caused approximately 8 false alarms, and 5 negative COVID tests in the past two months, or "being a teenager." Both Dan and I remember having a bad case of teenager on a few family vacations. So we went on with our day. I deepl...

  Part 1 of our two part trip to San Diego is almost over and the real "vacation" is about to begin. For those who don't know, this weekend was a trip to Point Loma that is required of everyone in the COTN who is on the path towards ordination, sometime within the first two years of being granted a District License. It involves a lot of self-awareness. We learned that while a pastor's job is quite diverse, self-awareness is one of the most important markers of a sustainable time spent in ministry.  Some of our time was spent going over the results of hours worth of personality profiles and psychological evaluations with a clinician and attending workshops explaining the reasons these results are important. Then we took worships meant to equip us for preventable pitfalls, as well as some explaining the importance of the profiles, surveys and evaluations we'd filled out about ourselves. Getting out of the house is never any small feat for me, with or without the kid...