Transitions - Stepping Out not looking Back
Today is Mental Health Awareness Day, so I thought I would jot down a few thoughts. Transitions can be scary. Since the tail end of last year, I have been aware that I would be entering a new phase this year. I did not know then that it would be so painful. For the last 13 years I have faithfully worked at pioneering a ministry. It is hard to let something you grafted over fall to the ground. Sometimes you just need to let things fall and walk away. Christian ministry can be the most peculiar thing. In one sense the joy and privilege of getting to connect with people and journey with them through life in the hard times as well as the good is just brilliant. The demands that Christian organisations can put on you however can be unrealistic, soul destroying and to be quite frankly, very un-christian. When all the weight is put at one end of a scale, one side is weighed down. An uneven yoke is hard to carry. I find it very interesting at the moment that there is social m...