Thoughts from Culhwch

I’ve been reading over the informational packet for Park Slope Presbyterian Church. And I’m stopped in my tracks. Overcome with memories of how God has used me, and of the importance I place on those events when I have felt God most at work through me.

I want that again.

I want to see people set free. I want to see them come together in a community. A couple of years ago I shared the poem I wrote while I was recovering from a very traumatic robbery. Those of you who know me will know what I’m talking about. And those of you who are just getting to know me will probably learn soon enough. You can read the poem here. At a spiritual retreat I shared this poem. I read it. I channeled what I felt at the time and maybe more. I read it out with all the raw emotion. And God used it. I saw people set free from burdens that they had carried. I saw people share the struggles that they had felt, and I knew God was using me to transform every one of us. At this moment I am overcome by something else. I am the quiet type of person in many social settings, I feel often disconnected from large groups of people. I only feel comfortable around small groups of friends, and I’m probably notoriously hard to get to know. But that night, when I shared that poem, God was creating the community that on my own, I could barely have even joined, let alone be a part of the founding of that communal moment.

For some time I have felt a calling to encourage others.  It grows from this and other experiences of feeling God’s presence. I love to write, I love to write when I’m on fire with a passion for everything that God has put before me, for all the burdens I feel.

I’m not exactly sure how to explain it. But I know God has put it there within me. God has put this need within me to encourage others.

I’m still searching for what this ministry entails, but I know I have to do it.

~David