A Story about Several Asses

A Story about Several Asses
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I was once assistant minister in a flourishing suburban church that had a history of having notable rectors, one of whom was by then rector of one of the most high-profile churches in the country. I have never forgotten hearing him say he knew he was not in the place where God really wanted him to be. When he had himself been an assistant minister, God had wanted him to go and serve as a missionary in another country, and he had resisted. He had spent his entire subsequent ministry in what he knew was not God’s first intention for his life. It was God’s “second best.” It was quite a second best! I admired his bravery in not only having faced and come to terms with what had happened but in being willing to talk about it, and I marveled at God’s grace in using him powerfully in his ministry even though he could never get back to God’s ideal will for him...