Sitting here and enjoying the view of the pond at my church has me reflecting on my life. Sixteen years ago, at the age of sixteen oddly enough, I was baptized in this very pond. Now here I am, writing, leading, and teaching at this very place. If you would've told me this is where I would end up and how I would end up sixteen years later, I wouldn't have laughed like the common phrase says, instead, I would've ran. I think God blinds our own foresight from us at times becaus