Pray for me

In the next few weeks, I’ll be starting my student teaching at Blaine High School. I’m hoping to have a good time doing this, but I’m nervous. I may continue my lack of posting for a while longer as I get comfortable with my new responsibilities. I would really appreciate your prayers as I begin this new adventure.

It’s been a little over three months that Natalie and I have been together. We’re doing really well. I’m a very lucky guy. Rather, God has been very gracious to me. I’ve never had a relationship that was so enjoyable, but where God was so much at work within me. Please pray for us, though, that we would continue to honor God together, always striving to know him more intimately.

In the last few days, I’ve been able to reflect on many of the ways God has blessed me. Life is not always good, but God is always very good. I heard a great quote from Piper (who was quoting Randy Alcorn) who said something like, “God does not bless us into a higher standard of living, but a higher standard of giving.” I’m not making any more money right now, but with all the blessing God’s given me, I should be giving a lot more. In the future, though, I probably will earn more money (hopefully quite a bit more), but I just want to state here and now that I will never need a higher standard of living than what I have today. If you want, you can pray that I hold to that conviction.

And if you’re anything like me, you can pray that you’ll hold to that conviction as well.