I can’t believe it. It seems so weird, it seems so crazy. I can’t believe it has already been a year since I started working here at First Church. I have made it through an entire year and I am not fired, woohoo!!!! This year has been crazy, stressful, difficult, amazing, and fruitful. I am so thankful I am here at this church, the staff is amazing, the students are awesome, and the church is alive.Its crazy how life can change in a year and how quickly it goes by. It feels like yesterday I stepped on this campus for the first time. So much has happened in a year, so many amazing moments, from skiing with the students in Big Bear to working in Stockton California for a Mission Trip. These experiences I have had with our students will always be sketched in my mind and on my heart. I have seen so much growth and spiritual depth in our students it makes me feel grateful for what God is doing here. But at the same time I can’t but help and think about all that is still ahead and that my friends is where I can get into trouble.
I realize that I seem to be thinking ahead a little too much. I am not saying that thinking ahead is a bad thing; in fact it is probably a good thing. However, I noticed that while I am thinking ahead, I’m actually living ahead. I’m living in the moments that have not yet taken place and as you can imagine I am not living in the now.
A friend of mine said something funny to me the other day. I asked where he was living, he just moved and I forgot where, and he said, “I live in the moments of life and just a few steps ahead.” I looked at him with a puzzled face and he said, “but my place of slumber is in Dana Point.” Still with a puzzled face I said, “Okay, thank you,” and then we both chuckled a little.
I know it’s kind of corny but afterwards I was thinking about what he said, “I live in the moments of life and just a few steps ahead.” I began to reflect on my life and this past year of living here in San Diego and I couldn’t help but think that I haven’t really lived in the moment. I realized that unless that time calls for it (i.e. a student in a crisis, youth group, giving a lesson, and so on) I usually think about all I have to do in the future. I need to start living in the moment. I think this is becoming so apparent to me know because I did that for two weeks in New Zealand. I didn’t think about what I had to do when I got home. To be honest, when I was there, I didn’t think about the next day, all I cared about was that moment right then and there.
This blog is called In Real Life. This is my life and this is what is real to me. [Richard Annett, Director of Student Ministries at First Church]
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