Just when you think a chapter in your life is finished it seems to repeat itself - as if the writers' strike is throwing life itself into reruns. I have had two such realizations of this in the last couple of weeks. One is that my wife and I will be back into diapers and sleepless nights again (come this summer) when we have another baby. The other is that I will remain in pastoral ministry in Calgary.

Both come with incredible joy and challenge attached to them. I love being a Dad. I also love being a pastor. Up until this afternoon I was sure that I would go through 2008 carrying only one of those titles.

In a spirit of positivity I will not get into why I thought this, but I was more than certain that I needed to rethink my vocational calling - I even watched as some unexpected and unsolicited job offers came in.

But my heart is in serving as a church planter and so I am glad to remain where I am - though one opportunity would have involved a family membership at a golf & country club and that is a little hard to just forget even in the middle of January :-).

Migwec