It's the final week of Advent, just before the nativity of our Lord. I've neglected to post on this blog since I was first called to serve as pastor of Clarkfield Lutheran Church. And I'm disappointed about it.
I have to admit, I feel very guilty for letting myself go on this long without blogging. It seems that with each new venture into blogging I attempt, I get trapped in never wanting or having time to write. I know that writing will benefit my life, putting fingers to keys so that I might scribble words on a screen is rather cathartic and at the very least organizes my mind a little. But of course life almost always interrupts all my well-meaning pursuits.
And life certainly has happened and interrupted. I've begun my ministry in this place and with these people; I've watched the birth of my second child, a son; I've traveled here, there and everywhere for work and family and pleasure; I've given time to getting to know the congregation I serve; I've written other places, for other things; the list could go on and on, and it will continue to get longer and even more mundane.
Since life happens and I have a consuming amount of guilt about not writing here, I might as well repent, ask for God's forgiveness, and get back to that life that seems to interrupt. But I'd also like to let this blog become a part of life that interrupts. I hope that writing here will interrupt other parts of my week. And I hope that it will do what writing always seems to and organize my mind.
The adventure here in Clarkfield has taken me in all sorts of directions. But as I have been taught again by the season of advent to wait, I am anticipating a bigger and better interruption than the daily things of life. I hope that this advent-ture I am on will be interrupted by Christ coming again to judge the living and the dead. I hope that his kingdom will come full force and we will see face-to-face the awesome power of the God who saves his children.
I am waiting for the Christmas interruption that will throw off my advent-ture. Come, thou long expected Jesus.
Peace!
