My experience of serving God over the years has taught me one significant lesson. That when significant things are witnessed or accomplished during that act of service, the euphoria, reinforced faith and sense of excitement at seeing God in action in people's lives is too often short lived.
This is mainly because reality often hits and I end up like a partially inflated balloon released in a room, spiralling and flying without clear direction before landing some distance from where I was a few seconds earlier.
But having returned from serving 200+ young people and their leaders alongside an amazingly talented and dedicated team of people this weekend, I want to make sure that I put down a marker so that the story of the weekend is not reduced to an insignificant time in my head, simply because of the looming shadow of real life creeping back in.
It was truly amazing to see salvation arriving into young lives, and great to have so many people come to a workshop I was involved with trying to get to grips with how we can be better ambassadors for our faith in the situations in which we live.
There's always hope. And God is at work. On the ground and in our communities, in real life situations, He is at work.
And that is worth remembering and looking out for. I don't just want to be someone who hears the stories of what God is doing, I want to be a part of it.
I hope I still feel this way tomorrow, and don't revert to feeling cynical and hopeless about the state of things.
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