God's always got a plan...
... even if you don't know it yet.
As most of you know, the four of us got together because we felt led to do so. Originally it was for creating a youth and family organization for a specific church. Then we felt His tug in another direction. We weren't quite sure yet what He was telling us, but we all said, "okay, we'll listen". That is of course after he slapped us across the head a few times!
Well we recently formed a new organization called The Edge Organization and still for the longest time we weren't sure what we were being called to do. But we knew it had something to do with helping the local community. Was it to form a new church? Or maybe to package and present our messages. We were all hoping it was just to play softball for a while... especially when we won the championship. But then we got off our high (softball) horse - actually got knocked off is more like it - and realized that it's not His plan to just play softball.
Then a person in the local community bumped into Flip one day and told us he was thinking about us and we should attend the local Forsyth County steering committee meeting on ridding the county of methamphetamine. I didn't even know how to pronounce it, much less volunteer to help our local government. But, Andy and Bro took on the task and attended the meeting. The day after the meeting I got a call from Andy and I couldn't shut him up. He wouldn't stop talking about how this is our (The Edge's) calling and how we could really help out the county and blah, blah blah. That's about all I remember he was talking so fast. After my head stopped spinning, I began to understanding that this thing was for real and God was not going to let us get away without helping out.
[sidebar: I've learned that when Andy has an idea, and he gets this pumped about it, there's no turning him back, but most importantly, since I've known him, he's always been right. ugh]
So, after talking with our spouses and praying a lot about this, it's time to do His work. So off we go to help drive meth out of the county. I've done a lot of reading lately and this is a *nasty* drug. Whew. I never realized how bad this stuff is. And don't buy the line "what I do to my body won't affect others" line either. Because there are far more innocent victims affected by this drug than you can imagine (wives, kids, innocent standers-by). Many of the victims had their lives taken by crazed users high on meth. I got a good education by watching the Meth Death movie at www.meth-in-douglas.com. This is another good site to learn about the dangers of the drug too, www.notevenonce.com.
So, please keep us in your prayers as we take on this next chapter in our lives. We aren't sure exactly where this is leading us but we know we are pointed in the right direction. What better way could we show Christian love and caring through a program like this? Isn't this what Jesus would have done? Maybe chapter one of The Edge was the "talk the talk". It looks like chapter two is "walk the walk."
As most of you know, the four of us got together because we felt led to do so. Originally it was for creating a youth and family organization for a specific church. Then we felt His tug in another direction. We weren't quite sure yet what He was telling us, but we all said, "okay, we'll listen". That is of course after he slapped us across the head a few times!
Well we recently formed a new organization called The Edge Organization and still for the longest time we weren't sure what we were being called to do. But we knew it had something to do with helping the local community. Was it to form a new church? Or maybe to package and present our messages. We were all hoping it was just to play softball for a while... especially when we won the championship. But then we got off our high (softball) horse - actually got knocked off is more like it - and realized that it's not His plan to just play softball.
Then a person in the local community bumped into Flip one day and told us he was thinking about us and we should attend the local Forsyth County steering committee meeting on ridding the county of methamphetamine. I didn't even know how to pronounce it, much less volunteer to help our local government. But, Andy and Bro took on the task and attended the meeting. The day after the meeting I got a call from Andy and I couldn't shut him up. He wouldn't stop talking about how this is our (The Edge's) calling and how we could really help out the county and blah, blah blah. That's about all I remember he was talking so fast. After my head stopped spinning, I began to understanding that this thing was for real and God was not going to let us get away without helping out.
[sidebar: I've learned that when Andy has an idea, and he gets this pumped about it, there's no turning him back, but most importantly, since I've known him, he's always been right. ugh]
So, after talking with our spouses and praying a lot about this, it's time to do His work. So off we go to help drive meth out of the county. I've done a lot of reading lately and this is a *nasty* drug. Whew. I never realized how bad this stuff is. And don't buy the line "what I do to my body won't affect others" line either. Because there are far more innocent victims affected by this drug than you can imagine (wives, kids, innocent standers-by). Many of the victims had their lives taken by crazed users high on meth. I got a good education by watching the Meth Death movie at www.meth-in-douglas.com. This is another good site to learn about the dangers of the drug too, www.notevenonce.com.
So, please keep us in your prayers as we take on this next chapter in our lives. We aren't sure exactly where this is leading us but we know we are pointed in the right direction. What better way could we show Christian love and caring through a program like this? Isn't this what Jesus would have done? Maybe chapter one of The Edge was the "talk the talk". It looks like chapter two is "walk the walk."
