K.C. Wahe

What makes me happy on my birthday? These guys do. I am grateful to God.

Disclaimer before I write anything else. I am fine. I love the Lord with all of my heart and soul, I love my wife Deb, and I continue to be blown away by how God continues to watch over our family. As for ministry I am blessed and I am grateful that God has given me the chance to serve as a pastor of a wonderful church with some wonderful folks. I am also grateful that God has opened up a door for me to serve as a part-time hospital chaplain while Debbie looks for a new teaching position. With that being said…

As I look at my life in a nutshell I have no complaints. I have been happily married to a wonderful and beautiful woman for almost 19 years. We get the God given honor of being able to raise some amazing kids. When it comes to lifes goals one sets, I browse through the last 40 years of my bookshelves of my heart and I must say I have met many of my goals. I also have many more to work on and I know God isn’t through with me when it comes to pastoral ministry and serving as a pastor. 

I turn 41 next week. Turning 40 was strange and I must say turning 41 is even stranger. I don’t feel that I’m a 41 year old although my body sometimes looks and feels like its 50. How do some of you older guys cope with this? Someone told me last year 40 is the new 27. How I wish! 

Over the next couple of weeks I will reflect on turning 41.

Let me say that as I think about turning 41 I have some mixed emotions. I am thrilled and at the same time I am beside myself that this train called “getting old,” is going way too fast.

I do know this…I am thankful…with joy and happiness I am thankful for what God has done for me. 

I give you these two folks who are just way too awesome and who are leading many in the kingdom to the throne of God. 

As I think about this post I just finished a long shift at the hospital doing chaplain things. I am exhausted and also grateful for the day I had. As I reflect on my day I think of a statement made by a friend of mine just recently about teaching the people of God to be missional. I am convinced that being missional isn’t something you can teach. Being missional is something you just do. How do you know your doing things missional? 

You’ll know. You’ll start hearing and seeing God work in ways you’ve never seen before. You become a risk taker. You start stepping outside of your box of naivete. When was the last time God kicked you out of your box for a moment just long enough to catch a glimpse of what the kingdom of God actually is about and looks like? 

Responding to the mission of God means finally saying with arms stretched out ,”Lord, here I am.” 

So? What’s keeping you?

I am having major issues of recent with my blog. Thanks to a friend of mine who helped me fix my blog, my feeble attempt at blogging will resume. I have lost a couple of posts. The one I lost was my recent trip back to Princeton. When the 4th of July leaves us this weekend I will make an attempt to get the pictures back up with my thoughts about being out of seminary for six years.