Here and NowI am beginning my job tomorrow. The time for my ministry to start has started, Here and Now! In preparation for this new job, my boss at the diocese practically forced me to check out three books from our resource library. I started reading Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry. It's all about how to start a program right. It's been giving me more ideas, and more things to think about. Things that make people burn out easily, things people do to make their programs excell, things I should be doing on a daily basis.
We are beginning.
I got to one chapter that I just really felt like skipping. I decided I'd read the into and then move on to the next chapter. That was until I read this sentence in the intro "If the typical youth worker were to choose one chapter in this book to skip, it would be this on." This chapter was on your own spiritual growth, and how you need to foster that relationship with God. I wanted to skip it not because I don't think it's important, but because I had it set in my mind that I had that all down! I pray the Liturgy of the Hours, I do this blog 5 times a week, I have my prayer walks with God when I can, I make it to adoration when I can. I didn't need to waste my time by reading a chapter on something I've already got down. But as I read the chapter, I realized that there were warning signs for the quality of spiritual life that I was experiencing. There were some things in that chapter that I have struggled with and continue to struggle with. It was then I realized that my prayer life isn't as perfect as I delude myself to believe. I'm not perfect. The sooner I realize that, the better, especially if I want to have any hope of relating to these teens I will be serving.
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I've read that book! What are the other two you have to read? If they aren't ones I've already read, I may have to check them out. Lemme know how they are!
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