Facebook has this thing where you can look back on posts from a particular day in years past. Sometimes I have a few, sometimes I have a lot. Today's day was interesting in that I had a bunch. Something about June 19th that just brings out the Facebooker in me maybe. What was really interesting (to me) was what a rollercoaster of a day this has apparently been over the years.
This is a good one. Robyn and the kids and I went on our only mission trip in all the years I did youth ministry as a family, and we had a fantastic time (until the last two days, which were marked by a horrible stomach virus, but we don't have to get into that).
How everything changed, just a year later!
Yep, this is us moving out of Katy/Houston because I lost the job at Holy Spirit for reasons still mysterious and completely unknown. It was a crappy day.
But, the next year, we bounce back to fun. The only rodeo we've been to since we moved here, but it was a really good time.
Well, back to a crappy day. I'm sensing a pattern here. I spent most of my waking hours of Father's Day working because by this point I was working overnights at Wal-Mart because the church we had moved here to do youth ministry in had abandoned us, forcing me into my first "real" job in a long long time. I was also in school full-time, trying to finish up my bachelors so that I could go to seminary. But hey! Next year should be back to good stuff!
Hey, what gives? Two negative posts in a row? This was the only sermon I gave at this church, maybe because it was so terrible, haha. Things weren't that bad here though. I was out of Wal-Mart and doing youth ministry again part-time. Just a bad sermon, it won't be my last.
This one is painful. Working at the Rialto and trying anything to save it from the nosedive that it was in. It didn't work, but still - it was a lot of fun working there, and it started my working relationship with Greg that has lasted five years (and coincidentally, may come to an end sometime this week).
Nothing much happened in 2013, apparently I just watched a hockey game. No idea which one or who won. BUT, in 2014, Ben is holding our first cucumbers from the garden we grew in our backyard! Robyn put a lot of work into that little patch.
Once again, I skipped a year, but 2016 was a pretty great day. I was officially announced as the World's GreatestFarter, uh, Father, as you can see from my commemorative t-shirt. I had also lost a ton of weight and look pretty great, if I say so myself.
So, I guess the question of the morning for me is "what is June 19th 2017 going to bring"?
This is a good one. Robyn and the kids and I went on our only mission trip in all the years I did youth ministry as a family, and we had a fantastic time (until the last two days, which were marked by a horrible stomach virus, but we don't have to get into that).
How everything changed, just a year later!
Yep, this is us moving out of Katy/Houston because I lost the job at Holy Spirit for reasons still mysterious and completely unknown. It was a crappy day.
But, the next year, we bounce back to fun. The only rodeo we've been to since we moved here, but it was a really good time.
Well, back to a crappy day. I'm sensing a pattern here. I spent most of my waking hours of Father's Day working because by this point I was working overnights at Wal-Mart because the church we had moved here to do youth ministry in had abandoned us, forcing me into my first "real" job in a long long time. I was also in school full-time, trying to finish up my bachelors so that I could go to seminary. But hey! Next year should be back to good stuff!
Hey, what gives? Two negative posts in a row? This was the only sermon I gave at this church, maybe because it was so terrible, haha. Things weren't that bad here though. I was out of Wal-Mart and doing youth ministry again part-time. Just a bad sermon, it won't be my last.
This one is painful. Working at the Rialto and trying anything to save it from the nosedive that it was in. It didn't work, but still - it was a lot of fun working there, and it started my working relationship with Greg that has lasted five years (and coincidentally, may come to an end sometime this week).
Nothing much happened in 2013, apparently I just watched a hockey game. No idea which one or who won. BUT, in 2014, Ben is holding our first cucumbers from the garden we grew in our backyard! Robyn put a lot of work into that little patch.
Once again, I skipped a year, but 2016 was a pretty great day. I was officially announced as the World's Greatest
So, I guess the question of the morning for me is "what is June 19th 2017 going to bring"?
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