As Youth Ministers, it’s always easy to get caught up in the difficulties of youth ministry, especially this time of year. And while it’s always important to confront our struggles and challenges, we need to spend just as much time, if not more, counting our joys.
In a homily I recently heard, the priest told a story about being challenged to recognize how good things were. He told us that in the busyness of trying to juggle everything it was easy to miss that the Lord’s goodness was abundant. It’s not a stretch to see how easy that is to do in youth ministry. We know youth ministry is hard work. We can be working on environments for Life Nights, trying to find a chaperone for a retreat, scheduling what events we’ll get to this week, checking