I have a heart for the little guy.  The youth pastor who has to do everything on his own.  The youth pastor who leads a youth group as a full time volunteer.  The youth pastor who doesn't have time to do everything he needs to to be the best youth pastor he can be.  The youth pastor who can't afford to buy youth ministry products.  The youth pastor who has no one to bounce stuff off of.  The youth pastor who has the passion and desire to be a youth pastor, but needs a little help with his or her messages.  This is the youth pastor I want to help.  How this is going to happen will be unfolding slowly over the next few months.  I am super excited about this idea and the guy I have been brainstorming it with.  His blog is here. So, because I have a passion for this and because I am not sure where this will go over time and I am not sure what it will take to get going it will be done on the side. I have more info for you about some other exciting things going on in my life, but that post willbe later this week.

That is the title of my blog.  The last words my grandpa Snyder told me before he died almost 9 years ago were, "Carry on young man." I decided to name my blog after this statement.  Carrying on is not as easy as it sounds.  It's really hard.  I now wish I was able to ask my grandpa exactly what he meant by it.  I have some ideas. Anyways, if you need me I will be around carring on.

Do you sometimes feel scared about doing something?  What if that something is taking a huge leap into the unknown, but you know it is the right thing to do.  What if that thing is not at all what you know?  What if you are getting in way over your head? Do you ever feel like you are forcing something when it is not something you should be forcing?  Do you do what you do because it is comfortable?  What if what you have been doing for the last how ever many years is not your calling?  Or it is your calling, but just looks a lot different than what you are trying to make it? These are questions I have been wrestling with and talking through and trying to answer.  I am not really sure where this post is going or if you even care.  These are tough questions.  These are real questions.  What are the answers?  I am not sure, but when I figure them out I will let you know.

Blogging.  I really don't blog much anymore.  I feel like it goes in cycles for me.  Lately I have been blogging about once a week.  I am sure in the near future I wil blog more consistantly because of things that will be happening this year, but for now expect about 1 or 2 posts a week if you are one of the few people who read this anyways. That is all

I have been finding it harder and harder to blog on a consistant basis.  I tend to blame it on twitter.  I get so much more info on Twitter and quicker versus using a blog reader and blogging myself.  It's simpler and easier.  I can put pics on twitter.  An or the most part, my thoughts are usually less than 140 characters anyways. How about you?  Do you find yourself blogging less?