The Big Four-0hhh

I just turned 40 and I decided to hold the big birthday bash down at McDougal's Village Chicken Coop (My friends' mid-life crisis involve fast cars and new guitars. Mine involves an insatiable need for chicken fingers). We sat around after dinner swapping stories over beer and cookie cake.

My Godmother came and joined us for the party. I was teasing her and trying to find out what she'd done for her 40th birthday. She got to laughing because that was 56 years ago and she had no idea what she did.

Wow, 56 years ago she turned 40. Kind of gave me a new perspective on time. I get so impatient with my perceived the lack of progress in the emerging church. Yet in reality, only a handful of people were even in the early stages of this post-modern-culture-meets-church conversation just 7 years ago.

When I was 7, I was still reading Dick and Jane books. Maybe things are going better than my tv sitcom attention span comprehends. So now maybe I should look forward to the emerging church's growth spurt at 12....our sweet 16 when we get our licence and gain a little freedom...our 21st birthday when we become legal and full members of society...and maybe even our 40th birthday when we can sit around over beer and cookie cake reliving the glory days of our youth.