Question of the day...

QUESTION: What wilderness experience has helped you see your gifts more clearly?

The wilderness experience that has helped me see my God given gifts more clearly would have to be voluntarily leaving "the pulpit". After accepting my call to the ministry in 2001, it wasn't long before I began to feel highly uncomfortable speaking from the pulpit. For one, I always considered myself to be a better writer than a speaker. I always wanted to type out my sermon notes and pass them out after service.

Eventually, I backed away from the pulpit and plummeted into a wilderness space. It was within this space however, that I found my voice. And my voice was best heard when I put pen to paper (or phalanges to keyboard). StarChild was created from this space. Courage to be a CEO and entrepreneur was found within this space. And a Godfidence unlike any I ever knew, was found within this space.

I think when a person is lead into the wilderness unknowingly, it's not necessarily a good thing. But when a person willingly takes on an assignment to go in the wilderness, all kinds of wondrous things are bound to sprout from the adventure.