{"id":1424,"date":"2011-06-06T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ywupdate\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2011-08-12T13:52:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T18:52:49","slug":"reidolson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ywupdate\/2011\/06\/06\/reidolson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold Life Loosely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pastoreid.com\/2011\/03\/31\/hold-life-loosely\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-711\" style=\"margin: 5px\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2010\/12\/Reid-Olson1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a>Reid Olson serves on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/youth\/speaker-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">Speaker Team<\/a> and describes himself as &#8220;just a normal guy, married with 2 kids in middle school, embracing my 40\u2019s, who thinks he hasn\u2019t done much for transforming this world into anything monumental, but when God speaks through me, it\u2019s fun to watch Him use me like a tool to do His &#8216;thing&#8217;. That\u2019s all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In March he put pen to paper, scratch that, he put his fingers on the home keys and got to typing a <a href=\"http:\/\/pastoreid.com\/2011\/03\/31\/hold-life-loosely\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>.\u00a0 Since writing the post a few things have transpired&#8230;here is what he has to say about the time between then and now:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since writing this article, I&#8217;ve been released from my ministry position  as Pastor of Students at Pine Lake Covenant. I revisit this article  often as the Lord continues to speak to me about His prompting in  writing it. I had no idea\u00a0that\u00a0life would transpire as it has, but I  have truly been able to live out this\u00a0blog post in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<p>I  know that God is working in the lives of our family. I know that God  will not abandon us. I know that holding things loosely in my life is  really the only way to find sanity and stability. I often feel like I  want to grab at the controls again and squeeze tightly the things I want  to control, but the more I squeeze, the less control I really have over  anything.<\/p>\n<p>God is teaching me the reality of trusting His lead,  sometimes in more ways that are uncomfortably not how I&#8217;d like to learn  to trust. When I recall the characters in Scripture, I&#8217;m reminded that  they didn&#8217;t get much of the easy way of faith either, so I suppose we&#8217;re  all in good company.<\/p>\n<p>Please pray for our family as we seek God&#8217;s next  call for us. After summer sabbatical we are looking for a lead pastor  position&#8230; Will preach for food. \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pastoreid.com\/2011\/03\/31\/hold-life-loosely\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read his blog post entitled &#8220;Hold Life Loosely&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ywupdate?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=1424&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reid Olson serves on the Speaker Team and describes himself as &#8220;just a normal guy, married with 2 kids in middle school, embracing my 40\u2019s, who thinks he hasn\u2019t done much for transforming this world into anything monumental, but when God speaks through me, it\u2019s fun to watch Him use me like a tool to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[212,226,225,13,242,205,221],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","tag-family","tag-journey","tag-leadership","tag-life","tag-reid-olson","tag-self-care","tag-transition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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