the    sides

Wayne,

Another freakin’ engineer.

Seriously, you’ve been a safe place for me. A place to be real and challenged and loved (but not in the gay way…ha ha). We’ve struggled being dads of young kids together. We’ve solved the Little League Problem Parents problem together. I’ve watched you become the youth pastor to 8 boys who are figuring out how to grow into a man of God.

I think they’ve found a great mentor. Your insight and questions of theology are only matched by your determination to flesh it out, to move it from beyond head knowledge to heart ownership. You are somehow figuring out how to have a relational based ministry while juggling a wife, 4 kids, a demanding job, and close friends.

You’ve personally shown me how to be an intense relaxed person. And for some reason – I think you know exactly what I mean.

Which means you are not a complete engineer and there is still hope for the lost mystic inside to come out!

Thank you, brother.

[tags]encouragment, spiritual disciplines[/tags]