Matt Short

Hello there to my faithful readers who continue to keep up with my shenanigans! My summer could be defined as the very antithesis of monetary gain, but a well spring of spiritual growth. So I’d like to share shortly how God has been working in my life and then let you know where my walk of faith is leading me this coming Fall.

Past

The past few months of being home have be trying on me spiritually, physically and emotionally, but I’ve absolutely loved what God has been doing. As you can read in my previous blog, God has kept me very busy this summer with ministries, continuing relationships I left while overseas and work (when it was available). Please scroll down and read more if you’d like… but I shall continue to divulge…

Present

At the moment I am working back at Dick’s Sporting Goods, the same job I had the past two summers and am happy to finally be making decent wages. God is SOOOO GOOD… which in full means: FAITHFUL, true to His promises, holy, just and righteous in all He chooses for us. Faithfully he has provided me with this job everytime I’ve been in need, and this summer has been nothing different from exactly that.

Future

Recently I have been accepted to the Video Impact School at the Youth With A Mission base here in Denver! This means I will be attending full time Video Production classes at the Arvada campus this fall from October 5th to December 18th. This course will teach me the skills needed to produce creative, visually stimulating and kingdom focused media, which I hope to use initially (this coming year) back at my local church. Due to the course’s location it will also allow me the ability to continue to attend my church on Sundays, lead my college group (The Crux) on Thursday nights… and hopefully see my girlfriend at least once a week. So as you could imagine, I am STOKED about this Fall!!!

My desire in this season of my life is to learn skills that I may use, alongside my spiritual gifts, to glorify God with. A prerequisite to the success of such a goal is learning who I am (aka who God’s made me to be), what I love, what I’m good at, and what God has given me individually to work with. Over the last three years I have DEFINITELY discovered the answers to most of those questions. I KNOW that God wants me to continue to use the gift of leadership he has given me and to walk wisely as I disciple those he’s entrusted me with, so THAT I shall continue, but I know there’s more I could do with my life. So I am in the process of discovering what I can do with the most influencial medium of art (video), using the passions God has given me for creating things along side a love of art. For I know that I am a created being created in the image of the Almigty Creator, and I want to be like my Abba.

Thus I ask for your prayers as I continue this season of self-discovery, spiritual growth, and character developement. I have greatly appreciated your support and love these past three years, or however long you’ve been with me, and I pray that you may be encouraged by reading this. I know that I have hardly scratched the surface of knowing how wide, how long and how deep the love of our Holy God is, but may we walk that adventure together.
God Bless

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