“Come, follow me…” (Mark 1:17)
As you read in Lynette’s post last week she has ask the youth board to respond to one of the questions in “Taking the Faith Home” each week. I hope you are enjoying this new tool in bringing your faith beyond just Sunday mornings.
One of the questions this week is “Have you given up something to follow Jesus?”
For those that know me you may already have heard this story, and for those that haven’t I’m going to try and keep it as short as I can (for internet posting sake), but I’d love to talk with you more about in person if you want!
Growing up I was always going to be a teacher – from kindergarten to my senior year of high school. I belonged to the Future Teachers of America club and everything. Then my senior year of high school I fell into the banking field. It was a great job, no nights, no weekends, pay was decent and really I didn’t need much education to be successful in it. This being my senior year post high school education was the last thing I wanted to think about.
So after graduation I stayed in banking, obtained my associate’s degree and began climbing the corporate ladder. My goal was to become a branch manager. I’m proud to say I obtain this goal at age 23! This was a huge feat for me and something I never thought I would accomplish so soon. I was the youngest branch manager my company had ever had! Here I was, 23 years old, working my “goal career”, making a lot more money than I thought I would be at 23 and yet…I was miserable. Something wasn’t right.
After a lot of prayer and some Godly interventions I made the decision to leave the manger position and step down to become a personal banker once again. As a branch manager I was quite successful and grew the office substantially both in terms of morale and over all dollar value; but I knew it wasn’t where God wanted me to be.
So I left what I thought was my career goal, took a vast pay & benefit cut and went back to school. I can honestly say it was one of the more difficult decisions I’ve had to make in my life, but I haven’t regretted it for a minute. Because of that decision I’ve come to realize what God’s life goal for me is.
Prayer: Lord God, thank you for all you have given me. Help me to use well the things I have, but not to become wrapped up in them. Amen
As you read in Lynette’s post last week she has ask the youth board to respond to one of the questions in “Taking the Faith Home” each week. I hope you are enjoying this new tool in bringing your faith beyond just Sunday mornings.
One of the questions this week is “Have you given up something to follow Jesus?”
For those that know me you may already have heard this story, and for those that haven’t I’m going to try and keep it as short as I can (for internet posting sake), but I’d love to talk with you more about in person if you want!
Growing up I was always going to be a teacher – from kindergarten to my senior year of high school. I belonged to the Future Teachers of America club and everything. Then my senior year of high school I fell into the banking field. It was a great job, no nights, no weekends, pay was decent and really I didn’t need much education to be successful in it. This being my senior year post high school education was the last thing I wanted to think about.
So after graduation I stayed in banking, obtained my associate’s degree and began climbing the corporate ladder. My goal was to become a branch manager. I’m proud to say I obtain this goal at age 23! This was a huge feat for me and something I never thought I would accomplish so soon. I was the youngest branch manager my company had ever had! Here I was, 23 years old, working my “goal career”, making a lot more money than I thought I would be at 23 and yet…I was miserable. Something wasn’t right.
After a lot of prayer and some Godly interventions I made the decision to leave the manger position and step down to become a personal banker once again. As a branch manager I was quite successful and grew the office substantially both in terms of morale and over all dollar value; but I knew it wasn’t where God wanted me to be.
So I left what I thought was my career goal, took a vast pay & benefit cut and went back to school. I can honestly say it was one of the more difficult decisions I’ve had to make in my life, but I haven’t regretted it for a minute. Because of that decision I’ve come to realize what God’s life goal for me is.
Prayer: Lord God, thank you for all you have given me. Help me to use well the things I have, but not to become wrapped up in them. Amen
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