I have been a Youth Pastor since 2005 and it has been the best position I have ever held in my life. However, over the past several months I have been going through the process of resigning my position. I will still be involved in the Youth Group and even more with the Young Adult group at my church. My final Sunday as a Pastor will be in the next couple weeks but the Youth Group has been aware this day was coming for a couple months now and they have been going through this process with me.
I have had many conversations about my leaving with the teens and have received many nice comments and I have appreciated them all. But this morning a conversation I had really made it all very real.
A young girl asked, as we were about to begin Sunday School, when I was leaving. I told her that I was going to be the Youth Pastor a few more weeks but I wasn't leaving. So she asked when I was moving. I told her that I wasn't moving. A little confused, she qualified her question and asked if I was still going to be attending our church. I responded that yes, I was still going to be a part of the church. To this she settled into her seat and said, "Oh, that's ok then." And with that it was done.
To realize that your presence attributes to the "o.k.ness" of a young person's life is a truly life changing thing. It is a humbling thing. It is something that until that moment I hadn't really understood. Well, I am not sure I still fully understand it but it will be something I will never forget for as long as I live. Deserved or not, in someone's life it's all o.k. because I am around. Wow. What else is there to say? It's all o.k. And I am forever thankful for that.
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