Letting go of something…

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Adam McLane

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I don’t know what it is about us guys… but we like to bite off more than we can chew. We like to think that we can do it all.

I can’t. Or rather… I chose not to. I must not be a "real man" who can do it all. So, I dropped one of the things in my life that was causing me a massive amount of stress.

For an indefinite period… no more grad school.

I need to focus on the massive wide open doors of ministry in front of me and stop trying to kid myself that I belong in "serious academic" study. My job right now is to be a husband, dad, and pastor. That’s important enough for me.

Perhaps one day the door will open again and it will be obvious for me to continue? But for now, I’m closing that door by choice to focus on other things. You know what? I feel better for doing it too. I feel like it’s one great big stressful ball of stuff I don’t have to think about for now.

Amen.

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    brian

    I know exactly what you’re talking about. I’m currently on that road to finishing my Master’s Degree but it’s slow going, very slow going. Writing a thesis to complete my degree. Talk about alot of work.

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    adam

    Thanks Brian for the encouragement. What’s helping me let go is a statement I’ve heard Andy Stanley say a bunch of times… “Sometimes to focus on something love, you have to get rid of something else that you like.”

    Fortunately, my friends at Huntington were extremely gracious.

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