There's been a lot of conversations recently that have started with "What were you doing 10 years ago?" Of course those conversations have been linked with 9/11 and what we were doing on that day and how we remember the course of events.
Then last week someone asked me the question "10 years ago did you imagine you'd be doing what you're doing now". I thought about who I was 10 years ago; a Stay at Home Mum with three children. No I didn't imagine then, that in 10 years time I would have already led a church for 5 years, almost completed my Bachelor of Theology, be an ordained Minister and have the position of Senior Pastor in a church that wasn't my current church, having moved my family which had grown to 4 children. I was happy being a Stay at Home Mum. Today I was in a meeting with Synod EO's and Directors of theological and leadership studies and I had a moment where I thought "10 years ago there was no way I'd imagine this"!
Which makes me think about what the next 10 years will bring. Of course there's the saying "If you want to see God laugh, tell him your plans" and I'm sure I've given God more than the odd chuckle ;-) I look back on the last 10 years and how many things I have done, things that I would never have believed I would do. It's been an exciting past 10 years and it's with that excitement that I look forward to seeing where God leads me in the next 10 years
What have the past 10 years been like for you? 10 years ago did you imagine you'd be doing what you're doing now?
And just because this is my blog I'm adding a song from my youth which asks "where will we be in 50 years" ;-)
