Today I have taken one of the biggest steps of my life. Looking back on my life when I am older, I hope to look at this day and say that Friday, July 3rd was the day that I took control of my life and stepped out in faith to pursue something that God has led me to.
Today, I resigned my job as a Customer Support Manager at American Cadastre. I have learned much in the last year at this job. I have learned about working as part of a team, to follow directions, to see projects through to an end, to obey hierarchies, and to deal with customers. I have learned about project management and how to be professional and political when necessary. I have also learned many technical skills that I never thought I would learn. I have gotten to travel for my job and to work under pressure with customers.
I have resigned my job in order to return to L'Abri, where I have spent time over the past years, to run Destinee Media, which is a progressive thinking Christian book publishing company. I have worked with Ralph, the founder of Destinee Media, quite a bit and he is a mentor to me and other entrepeneurs. It is our goal to be culture makers, to engage in society by looking at it through the Christian worldview, being willing to question what has been blindly accepted and to seek to show the world what it means to truly follow Christ in this world.
I know there will be many many challenges along the way, but I trust that God is with us and will provide, and whatever we do in this life that is for His glory He will use for good and is glorified in it.
Stay tuned to this blog for updates on Destinee Media! Also look for a new Destineemedia.com website to be live around the end og August. This site is already in production on a test location and is being fine-tuned. As well, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/destineemedia.
Cheers!
Friday, July 3, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Christian Singleness
I just read an interesting post on Christian Singleness at the Evangelical Outpost. I highly encourage you to read and think about this article, especially those of you who are Christians and have been raised with the church's view of marriage, singleness, and sex.
This article strikes a cord with me because, as a 24 year old single Christian male, I often feel looked down upon or left out by many Christians my age who are married and have been for a while. Now, I'm not saying that this is everyone, as I know some awesome Christian couples my age, but once again I have to ask: what is the rush to get married? I posted about this a while back in my post "The Sprint To The Altar", but I must once again say that I think too many people are rushing into marriage too soon. It has been discovered that the divorce rate drops dramatically if you wait to get married in your mid-20's than if you marry in your teens/early 20's.
I even heard a couple who are marriage counselors for a living say that if you are under the age of 25, you should not even be considering marriage. I know other marriage counselors who will not do pre-marital counseling with a couple unless that couple has been together for over a year and is of a certain age. I think there is such wisdom in that.
I for one am so glad that I am not married right now. To be sure, sometimes I think that it would be nice to have a companion that can help share the responsibilities of life, as well as be someone (though not the only person in my life) that I can confide in. I am so glad that I am single right now, though, because I have grown up so much in the past year to year and a half being on my own post-college. I am a different person from who I was two years ago in college, and that changed has occurred as I have had to take responsibility for myself, for a job, for my own finances, for all of life. I would recommend that people should first get out of college, or at least out from under your parents' umbrella and financial support, for at least a year before thinking about bringing someone else into your life.
Take time to travel. Take time to live an outside of the box life and learn that you have what it takes to survive on your own. Learn to take responsibility for everything in your life. Only once you have taken responsibility completely for yourself can you hope to truly love someone else well and walk through life with them.
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
This article strikes a cord with me because, as a 24 year old single Christian male, I often feel looked down upon or left out by many Christians my age who are married and have been for a while. Now, I'm not saying that this is everyone, as I know some awesome Christian couples my age, but once again I have to ask: what is the rush to get married? I posted about this a while back in my post "The Sprint To The Altar", but I must once again say that I think too many people are rushing into marriage too soon. It has been discovered that the divorce rate drops dramatically if you wait to get married in your mid-20's than if you marry in your teens/early 20's.
I even heard a couple who are marriage counselors for a living say that if you are under the age of 25, you should not even be considering marriage. I know other marriage counselors who will not do pre-marital counseling with a couple unless that couple has been together for over a year and is of a certain age. I think there is such wisdom in that.
I for one am so glad that I am not married right now. To be sure, sometimes I think that it would be nice to have a companion that can help share the responsibilities of life, as well as be someone (though not the only person in my life) that I can confide in. I am so glad that I am single right now, though, because I have grown up so much in the past year to year and a half being on my own post-college. I am a different person from who I was two years ago in college, and that changed has occurred as I have had to take responsibility for myself, for a job, for my own finances, for all of life. I would recommend that people should first get out of college, or at least out from under your parents' umbrella and financial support, for at least a year before thinking about bringing someone else into your life.
Take time to travel. Take time to live an outside of the box life and learn that you have what it takes to survive on your own. Learn to take responsibility for everything in your life. Only once you have taken responsibility completely for yourself can you hope to truly love someone else well and walk through life with them.
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Selfishness and Others
Today I am sitting at Greenberry's Coffee & Tea Shop trying to define some marketing objectives for Destinée Media. My mind keeps wandering, however, about everything and nothing in particular at the same time.
For some reason, during this past week, I've had some interesting thoughts about my life pop into mind. I think that the high-profile deaths of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson have done a work in my mind to make me think about the importance of life and the importance of people in one's life. I've had to look at my life, during some quieter times of reflection that I've made a point to maintain in my life, and realize that maybe what I've been living hasn't necessarily been on the right track. Being unwilling to reach out and be willing to speak about what is most important to me has been selfish of me.
During the past months, I've seen a decreasing importance of people and relationships around me, and an increase in selfishness and materialism. I see this mostly in myself, and I also see it in others, especially in the culture that we see portrayed through the media. I hear people say "What matters is making myself happy. I know that sounds selfish, but it isn't, because at the end of the day, the only person you can make happy is yourself."
I think that's completely wrong. How about the idea of dying to self (meaning, your own interests) and living for others? What about the idea of serving others (servant leadership, especially) and doing what we can to provide for others? It warms my heart to see selfish people reaching out to others and realizing that there is something fulfilling about loving others selflessly. In fact, I think it's the selfless ones who are truly happy. All I see in selfish people is a desire for more and more, and never becoming happy.
As I move forward and pursue opportunities in life, I want to make a pact with myself, God, and you who read this to make others important in my life. As I take control of my professional destiny, I want to make others the most important thing, and make sure people know that they matter as individuals.
For some reason, during this past week, I've had some interesting thoughts about my life pop into mind. I think that the high-profile deaths of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson have done a work in my mind to make me think about the importance of life and the importance of people in one's life. I've had to look at my life, during some quieter times of reflection that I've made a point to maintain in my life, and realize that maybe what I've been living hasn't necessarily been on the right track. Being unwilling to reach out and be willing to speak about what is most important to me has been selfish of me.
During the past months, I've seen a decreasing importance of people and relationships around me, and an increase in selfishness and materialism. I see this mostly in myself, and I also see it in others, especially in the culture that we see portrayed through the media. I hear people say "What matters is making myself happy. I know that sounds selfish, but it isn't, because at the end of the day, the only person you can make happy is yourself."
I think that's completely wrong. How about the idea of dying to self (meaning, your own interests) and living for others? What about the idea of serving others (servant leadership, especially) and doing what we can to provide for others? It warms my heart to see selfish people reaching out to others and realizing that there is something fulfilling about loving others selflessly. In fact, I think it's the selfless ones who are truly happy. All I see in selfish people is a desire for more and more, and never becoming happy.
As I move forward and pursue opportunities in life, I want to make a pact with myself, God, and you who read this to make others important in my life. As I take control of my professional destiny, I want to make others the most important thing, and make sure people know that they matter as individuals.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
A Voice
Finally, a female voicing what we've all been thinking:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/06/17/tf.is.cheating.ever.deserved/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/06/17/tf.is.cheating.ever.deserved/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Update on "Beginning Of The End"
Thanks to Renea for bringing this to my attention:
http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/news/breaking/ecke
http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/news/breaking/ecke
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20
"Then I realized that it is good and proper for a man to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in his toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given him - for this is his lot. Moreover, when God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work - this is a gift of God. He seldom reflects on the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with gladness of heart."
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