In my first few years of sobriety, as I was rebuilding my life and it felt like every door was closed to me, my AA sponsor would encourage me to stand in the dark hallway and wait for God to open another door.
One. That’s how many all-nighters I’ve pulled. And it wasn’t even to study or complete a project.
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I am a native North Carolinian and, though I am not as old as the saying is, I remember North Carolina’s logo, “Variety Vacationland.”
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I have spent a majority of my adult life in a fifteen passenger van going from state to state playing country music. I would not trade one thing for my years on the road, nor the hundreds of thousands of miles I drove in that time.
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The context I am serving in is a long-standing Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) church that is in the midst of a lot of transition.
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Long ago in the small, calm city of Atlanta, two churches had thriving ministries in their neighborhoods.
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Since 2010, thirteen new Methodist Churches have been born in Northern Tanzania. Most of these churches were in areas of extreme poverty, domestic violence, and hunger where children regularly died of preventable diseases.
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Most people would think that because I am a self-taught chef who operates a catering business, the table is all about the food for me.
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A lot of questions come at you post-pilgrimage. The easy ones are asked by polite friends that want you to know they noticed you were gone for a bit. “Have a good time? Glad you went?” Easy. “I had a wonderful time. I’m very glad I went.”
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