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Andrew's avatar

The older brother section got me. I left a ministry staff position this year — twenty years of that being my answer when people asked what I did — and I keep catching myself waiting for somebody to notice. Not a party exactly. Just... some acknowledgment that it cost something. Which is the older brother, obviously. I don't love that about myself. Working on it.

Maury D. Wood, II's avatar

I've dealt with that myself several times.

Maury D. Wood, II's avatar

Brighton sent me this a few minutes after this article was published. Pretty fitting. God's timing is perfect. 1 Peter 5:6 CSB

[6] Humble  yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand  of God, so that he may exalt you at the proper time,

https://bible.com/bible/1713/1pe.5.6.CSB