It’s July. I started this year six months ago as a struggling-to-not-be a self-absorbed sulking former failed church planter and nominal pastor. A few things have changed.

I closed the doors of my first pastorate that I had inherited before I was ready.

I have been delivered from a old sin by a gracious God.

I have watched my wife struggle with a physical pain and watched grace unfold.

I have struggled with my own physical discomfort that is thankfully getting better.

I have watched God slowly, painfully in places change the place I minister and work for the better.

I have become a Presbyterian and feel theologically rooted.

I have a looked into the mirror and seen God change a man into what he is to become.

I have learned that God does make all things new.

I have half a year to go to see what else God is going to do.

What has God shown you this year so far?