Jason's Blog | The Thoughts and Pondering of a Youth Director

Mar 19th, 2010

The End of the Fast

It feels really weird to be at the end of this fast. After doing this for a month it has almost become part of my routine and part of who I am. I hope it continues to impact me and change me as I move on to the next part of my journey. Yesterday was [...]

Mar 17th, 2010

Day 29

I am constantly amazed at how my mind works. I have been doing this fast for 29 days now and have gotten in a pretty solid routine and the routine has helped my hunger stay relatively low. All of a sudden as I approached the last three days I have been hungry all of the [...]

Mar 13th, 2010

Day 25

Now that I am on the last leg of this fast I am beginning to think about what I will be eating when I am finished. Throughout this fast I have thought about the big juicy burger or the pizza that I will eat, but now it has changed quite a bit. I am realizing more and more how [...]

Mar 11th, 2010

Day 23

I only have 1 week left of this fast and I am feeling like it will almost be weird to actually be able to eat normal food again. I have gotten into somewhat of a routine now and it has helped considerably. It has amazed me how much my metabolism has gone into shutdown mode. [...]

Mar 9th, 2010

The Translator

I just found this book as I was doing my daily reading. It looks like a very good way to begin to understand what is happening from the Darfurians standpoint.

Mar 8th, 2010

Day 20

I am very happy to say that I am 66% of the way finished with this fast! I have been doing alright but the foods are really beginning to get old. The farina wheat cereal used to be a “joy” in the mornings but now I am having to split it into three different servings [...]

Mar 6th, 2010

How about some solitude?

One of the things that I have learned the most in my first two years of youth ministry is that it can be extremely wearing. When you are working with youth every week who are hurting and who have very tough living situations it begins to burden you more and more. My senior pastor once [...]

Mar 6th, 2010

Day 18

It’s been a bit since I have done an update on here. I was able to get away on Thursday morning and rented a camper cabin at Lake Maria state park and take 24hrs of solitude. I got back Friday night then had a funeral and celebrated my birthday with family this afternoon. It is [...]

Mar 2nd, 2010

Day 14

Do you know how much we talk about food in the US? I wish I had some stat to show or tell that would explain what I am noticing. Not only do many of our conversations revolve around food but there is advertising everywhere about food. As I watched TV last night every set of [...]

Mar 1st, 2010

Great Video

Every year for the Simply Youth Ministry Conference Jake puts out some kind of music video. This years video made me laugh a lot. Part of it was because it wasn’t at all who I am, but parts of it hit home too Check it out!