Spirituality at the Speed of Life

So my goals of regular blogging have been somewhat stifled as of late but I am going to make it a goal to post at least once on the weekends at the very least. I will build back up to more posts from there. On to the update...

Katie and I finished our first week of work a day ago and it went really well. I'm working as a Software Consultant for Captech Ventures and Katie is a Leasing Consultant for Bramblewood Estates. God has blessed both of us with incredible companies that are really doing well. Captech has about 100 employees and plans to hire around 20 more people this year alone! Beacon Residencial, the company that owns Bramblewood Estates, continues to acquire new property all over the region as well. Katie spent her first week learning the ropes at the property while I spent my week learning the ropes at Captech and waiting to hear where my first client would be. On Friday, I received word that I would be going down to work for CapitalOne on the south side of the city. It's about a 20 minute commute (a little long) but I will be doing some Project Management which is what I wanted to learn more about anyways. I start there on Monday so I'm excited to see how it goes.

We also just came from our third Sunday at Commonwealth Chapel. What an amazing community. I've been interacting with their pastor, Rob, for several months but today was his first "official" Sunday there as their new pastor. My favorite thing about their community (other than the fact that they genuinely love God and each other) is the diversity of the church. There are babies there and 80 year olds, blacks, whites, latinos, college students, singles, newlyweds, families, and all sorts of other flavors of humanity - its awesome! I met a woman last week who sat behind me that had gone to that church for over 50 years!!! The worship is great and Rob is a great communicator. Katie and I were going to spend the summer church shopping before we decide on a church but the more we go here, the more I don't want to check out any other churches. I still think we will check out some other churches but am starting to think that this is where God might want us to be.

Starting with Week 2 of work tomorrow, I am hoping we can start to develop a routine, or weekly rhythm. We have two nights planned to do social stuff, probably one or two nights where Katie and I will get out of the house and do something, and a night or two of just vegitating around the apartment. I can't yet say that I feel swept away by the speed of life, that I feel helpless to really do anything but come home from work and just go to bed to do it all over again - frankly, I don't think this is the inevitability everyone swore it would be for us. By the end of the year I fully expect to be back in ministry doing my best to serve at whatever church we feel called by God to call home. I fully expect to get with God today, tomorrow, and everyday, same as I have for a while. Life does fly by at a pretty incredible rate but I hold to my belief that you make time for the things that are truly important to you. That with a little optimism and forethought about how you want to spend your week, spirituality is possible at this, and every, speed of life.