Do you ever wonder, “How did I get here?”
No, I don’t mean on earth. That’s simple enough. God formed us in our mother’s womb… in about nine months…. yeah, that’s not what I mean.
I have been thinking about this idea of looking at where we are like a Situational Inheritance…
It may seem simple to you. It seems simple to me, now. Looked at objectively, I can describe my life as of today pretty well. We are here…
Here is Base Camp.
Here is Will at Harding.
Here is Ben at TJC.
Here is Sadie at home but not wanting to be…
Here is Macie, Rece, and Trey in middle school.
Here, for me, is a degree in Ag Business and experience in new home construction, oil and gas, and most significantly as a missionary serving with Cru. This is more than a job or a career, though it is that. It’s a calling. A vocation that I want to develop for the rest of my life.
Here is the reality of adoption…
Here is leading the Destino Team.
Here is Faculty Commons.
Here is Community Bible Chapel.
Here is MPD and the reality that we are seeing more come into our staff account than ever before.
Here is our relationship… strong, with gaps.
Here is Daisy and Sadie’s dogs, and needing steers to graze Base Camp grass, and leased grazing on both sides of us. Leased for basically nothing but good for us and good for our neighbors, who live far away.
Here is slipped financial habits and a little debt that has sorta crept up on us as a result. Not a red flag warning but not good either.
Here is a great foundation and a bunch of opportunity.
And here is a kid who needs to be homeschooled.
There is no doubt that we didn’t just happened here. Situationally here. It has taken decades. I has taken hard work. And it has taken God being in control.
But what if I could strip away the how we got part of “how we got here” and look at here objectively, like an outsider, disconnected from the emotional connection of the how we got part.
It would be like we inherited here…
So I have pretended that I could walk into my situation like a new product manager, clearly objective about where we are and where we need to go.
And as an objective project manager, I’ve realized that I wouldn’t be so attached to past decisions, right as they may have been when they were made. And I do believe that every decision we have made, we have made with full integrity and prayer. And I do believe that I would make the same decisions again, given the the same circumstances and information we had at the time.
But I have realized that the circumstances are different now. And that different circumstances call for a new set of decisions. Decisions about how we educate our kids followed by decisions about how we organize and prioritize our energy.
And I am grateful for the opportunity clarity brings. It will be good!