Chasing the Wild Goose

I’m not sure how to start this random assortment of thoughts, but here goes. God definitely has me in a transitional phase of life, many changes have occured and will occur in coming months. First, I graduate from CU in a few months (finally). Second, after two years, I’m leaving student ministries at Flatirons, and extremely difficult move as I love the leaders and the students there (especially my guys, Zach, Joe and Kelson), but I am just as confident now as I was when I talked to Brian, the High School Coordinator, about my decision. Third, within the last week one of my friends (Adam) who knows me best has left for Virginia and another (Mark) who knows me rather well is going to be leaving for Virginia in August for med school. Knowing Mark is leaving is especially hard since I have allied myself with him within student ministry and both of us thought he would be staying in state for med school at CU, Adam I’ve known his desire to move and that he was going to move for a few years now. Dang you Virginia! One by one, the people and things that I’ve grown familiar with are being stripped away. It is tough, but in my experience it is probably because God is getting ready to do something great.

At the same time as this has been occurring this burning in my heart has been increasing for teaching and writing and (hopefully soon) starting a church in the Pacific Northwest. As much as I hate to admit it, my experience at CU Boulder has been valuable, mainly because God has used it to awaken and break my heart for the people of my generation, the people He wants me to reach. Right now I’m praying for some allies to join me in this dream, to lock arms with me in this vision and go for it. Men and women who will venture out with me to reach and touch the brokenhearted, hurting and lost. I’m not looking for a bunch of “superchristians” or people who think they have it all together, but just a few stout-hearted souls with hearts burning to live dangerously, risk it all, walk with God and follow the Wild Goose (what the early Celtics called the Holy Spirit) with the hope of building the Kingdom. By the way, this is the normal lifestyle as laid out in the Bible for believers, to walk intimately with God and with others, Jesus modeled this with the disciples and we are warned elsewhere to not walk alone (Eccl. 4:11).

Anyways, I must be on my way to work, another day of throwin’ boxes at FedEx. So, here’s to following the Wild Goose!

~Josh