Annoyed?

Some kids yank at our hearts while others just plain annoy us. But I’ve discovered that my definition of the annoying breed changes as I progress through stages of life. Yikes.

I used to enjoy the middle school age, then younger high schoolers, then seniors. And now? I love hanging with the college stage.

Wherever you find yourself, it’s often advantageous to remind ourselves of this thing call ‘progression’. Not only is God moving history towards an end that has already been revealed, He is also moving us (students included).

It wasn’t all that long ago that our annoying thugs were hard at work, destroying everything in sight and making sure that no meeting could go uninterrupted. Fast forward to last month when twenty of them volunteered a week of their time to be chaplains on a large boat trip. What happened in those five years to turn engines of destruction into care-giving humans? God.

If you find yourself annoyed, zoom out.