The Perfect Cup

I love a perfect cup of coffee. Dark Roast with no sugar or cream in a nice big mug on a cool Fall morning on the lake would be an ideal cup of coffee and setting for me. Today we begin another Fall semester at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. The Dean family counts this Fall as our fifth beginning as faculty and in conversations find it hard to believe how quick time is clicking by in our family. In ministry I am reminded that this life is just a passing vapor. I find myself pondering eternity more and more and I understand how wiser people in my life talk about the things that matter as they age as well.

My heartbeat for this semester are simple to daily pursue a fresh encounter with my God through His Word and other disciplines that enrich my journey of being more like Him and being in step with Him. In my family I desire to be the husband and father I have been called to be. In my role as a professor I desire to be renewed in my content areas of research and teaching so that ministers and churches can be impacted in ways that impact eternity. I have great anticipation for this academic year that reminds of the anticipation when I am waiting on the perfect cup to finish brewing. May we each pause and be still and find a rhythm to life that reflects a life in tune to the Fathers.

Psalm 46 has been a refreshing read for my life for years. Eleven years ago the Psalm served to sustain during a great disaster that rearranged all of my life. This year the be still or cease striving of verse 10 reminds me to slow down and enjoy a perfect cup with the Father each day.