{"id":99909,"date":"2024-01-14T06:46:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T11:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/?p=99909"},"modified":"2024-01-14T06:46:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T11:46:54","slug":"a-pastors-thoughts-family-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2024\/01\/14\/a-pastors-thoughts-family-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pastor\u2019s Thoughts: Family Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Pastor Kevin Boothby, Tracy Creek Memorial Church &#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">It was about a week before we left. We\u2019re looking at the scenery, almost majestic-like. I remember my kids shouting from the car on the empty side road, driving in between rice fields that extend just about as far as we could see. They were shouting,&nbsp;<i>\u201cKorea is awesome!\u201d \u201cThank you!\u201d&nbsp;<\/i>and&nbsp;<i>\u201cWe\u2019ll miss you Korea!\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">An era of our family life was coming to an end.<i>&nbsp;<\/i>We pull over, my wife and I hold one another and look at the valley of rice. We wonder what God has planned for our next era. Where would we end up, and what would we be doing? How long will we be there? Will I have a job before my military pay runs out a few months after we get back to the States?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">From the time we got married in 2009 we have experienced so much. We lived in the State of Maine and had our first child there. Then I moved to North Carolina for military training. Then Virginia. Then back up to Maine for a few days, and our journey together begins.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">We moved to the State of Washington. We have our second child, and adopt our third. We moved to Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Korea.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Korea is full of unknowns and twists and turns. She had several miscarriages, totally unexpected, it had never happened before. Finally my fourth child is born, as I\u2019m sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic in Seoul, coming home from a machine gun range that is just a couple of miles South of the 38th parallel. Finally I arrived five hours later at the hospital in the middle of the night to learn they had just taken our newborn to a Korean hospital an hour away fifteen minutes before I got there.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">And now we\u2019re here in the great State of New York. We love it here, being here for about a year and a half. Pastoring a small country church, Tracy Creek Memorial Church. A ministry full of more unknowns. What is God going to do with us here? What will He bring to our little church? What is He going to bring to our family?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">None of us would want it any other way. We\u2019re exactly where God has planned for us to go. We love our life here in Vestal, N.Y., serving our God and loving our church family. We never expected to be here, but we know that God has work cut out for us, and until it is very clear that He\u2019s calling us somewhere else we accept our life here together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Embracing the unknown can be challenging. Uprooting your life is no small feat. For some, even&nbsp;<i>continuing&nbsp;<\/i>your life seems like no small feat. Life is full of twists and turns, along with challenges that we never thought we\u2019d have to face. Challenges and changes that are not in our control. We can try to plan around them if we\u2019d like, but at the end of the day we don\u2019t know what they\u2019re going to be, and no amount of planning can truly prepare us for what we don\u2019t know is coming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">&nbsp;In the New Testament in the Bible, in James 4:13-14, it says,&nbsp;<i>\u201cCome now,\u201d you who say, \u201cToday or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit. Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.\u201d&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">You see, planning is a good and wise thing to do. However, the moment we lose sight that it\u2019s only God who knows what lies ahead, we\u2019re going to be left worrying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">When we talk about embracing the unknown, we don\u2019t mean that we have to&nbsp;<i>like it.&nbsp;<\/i>We just need to go into it with the mindset that God is in control of it. When we trust in God, who knows everything, it doesn\u2019t mean we believe everything He sends our way in this life is going to be&nbsp;<i>good.&nbsp;<\/i>We must trust in the Lord nevertheless, and step forward knowing whatever it might be we\u2019re going through, whether it\u2019s a time of trial, a time of rejoicing, or a time of not knowing; God is in control of it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The sooner we realize that, the sooner we can embrace what God sends our way.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Pastor Kevin Boothby, Tracy Creek Memorial Church &#8212; It was about a week before we left. We\u2019re looking at the scenery, almost majestic-like. 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