Weekly News | 6.26.26

This Sunday will be a confirmation service! There are several among us who will be confirmed, having taken up the faith they were baptized into. At the same time, others among us will be received into the Anglican Church. After affirming their baptismal vows, Bp. Brian Wallace will lay hands on those being confirmed and those being received, and pray for an outpouring of the Spirit in their lives. See you at 10AM!

Below we resume our eNews series, hearing reflections from our community on the intersection of faith and vocation. May it be an opportunity to know someone at COTC as well as an avenue through which we might consider and engage the Lord around our particular work.

I came across a social media post recently that felt like a total invasion of my privacy: “If you were in a ‘gifted and talented’ program in the 90s, how are you doing with your high-functioning anxiety, perfectionism-based procrastination and early-onset burnout?”

Growing up in peak 90s white evangelical youth group culture, I got the message that God wanted to use my generation to save the world for Christ - that I was meant to be a world-changer. I was going to do “great things” with my “gifts and talents.”

Over the next twenty-something years, I was anxious about whether I was reaching my potential - whether I was making a difference in the world.

Recently I woke up to a sobering and somewhat frightening revelation: I’m pretty much just a normal guy.

In one sense, I know and agree with CS Lewis: “There are no ordinary people. You have never met a mere mortal.” Yet I am learning to embrace the opportunity to be remarkably ordinary.

I lived so much of my life with the burden of “How is God going to use me?” I never stopped and considered how weird that question is.

I don’t think God is really all that concerned with my usefulness.

I’m His kid. He loves me.

So I write code. If the code I write today doesn’t change the world, I’m learning to be okay with that. If the sum of my day’s work is completing a list of tasks from a client, I’m trying to figure out what it means to do that “unto the Lord.”

Now I consider Paul’s instruction to the Thessalonians a daily invitation: “Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands.” (1 Thess. 4:11)

Steve Husmann works as a software developer. He has been a member of COTC for 5 years, helps lead one of the Round Rock Neighborhood groups, serves with Roots and on occasion you may see him taking pictures for the Celebrations team. Steve is married to Leah and they have 3 hilarious and lovely kids.