Beach daz are rad

This is a picture of Tony laying out with Aaron Koref. This picture made my day-Today a bunch of us from the student ministry went to the beach to simply hang out and have a good time. It was a great time of fellowship as about 50 of us hung out and enjoyed the day. TJ and the kids came which is always good. At one point about 20 of us were in the ocean playing tackle the man (or woman) with the football. The idea was if you had the ball you didn't want anyone to take it away from you as you'd try to throw it to someone else. There weren't any teams, just everyone for themselves. What stuck out to me was when one of our youth leaders (Tony McCormick) had the ball everyone was calling out his name requesting the ball. Tony with only one football had to chose who to throw it to and when he did everyone else gave him grief for not throwing it to them. This is when tony replied "what do you expect me to do? There is only one football." I felt like that was a great picture of us Christians sometimes. There is so much to do that we often spread ourselves too thin trying to do it all instead of doing one thing really well and trusting God to tackle the rest, pun intended. God has given us each only one football (limited resources) and we can't possible please everyone (the 19 other people aka every ministry in your church or every need in our community). But we can make the most of that one football God has given us and see where He takes it. And with the 19 other people disappointed, well we'll just have to trust God that He'll care for those we can't. I'm reminded of the life of Jesus. He didn't physically heal everyone while He was walking the earth (and He could have). He didn't bring peace to everyone while He was walking the earth (and He could have). Jesus actually could have done more throughout His ministry (in the physical sense) but saw the value in staying focused to His calling and trusting God the Father with the rest. Man am i glad He stayed focused on His calling, as it was to die on the cross for all our sins. I just can't imagine life without the cross.