Comments on: Looking for Goliath.

By: One Word 2010: Drudgery | Becky Castle Miller

One Word 2010: Drudgery | Becky Castle Miller — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:31:00 +0000

[...] And oh, could I relate! Looking for Goliath/ The Gift of Invisibility [...]

By: Destiny Riggleman

Destiny Riggleman — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:07:04 +0000

You have to know that this post still speaks volumes to me on an almost daily basis. Thank you Jon for what you do.

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:50:46 +0000

thank you.

By: Josh VanBuskirk's Blog

Josh VanBuskirk's Blog — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:54:00 +0000

[...] http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/01/looking-for-goliath/ [...]

By: Melissa Gutierrez

Melissa Gutierrez — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:07:00 +0000

J.D. Salinger writes in Franny and Zooey: "I wish I had the courage to be a nobody."

By: Amy Beth Reyes

Amy Beth Reyes — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:44:17 +0000

I feel like that at work 95% of the time. I work with kids all day long for 50+ hrs per week and almost all I get out of it is a small paycheck and stress from co-workers that I just don't get along with, for whatever reason.

But it's the 5% that keeps me here and keeps me going. Like when the teacher whose class attended one of my programs today thanked me for giving a role to all of the girls in a family of quads and how impressed she was that I got her kid having the most trouble with speech out of his shell and starring in the lead role.

If it wasn't for that 5% I think I'd quit. But that little bit of my day helps me feel like maybe, just maybe I actually am making a difference (I'll be it a small one) in the world and community I call home.

By: April

April — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:32:51 +0000

I don't know if I'm too late posting on this, or not. But here goes. This post meant so much to me that I actually printed it out and am now carrying it around with me. I asked my husband to read it and he began to laugh. I spent the entire weekend wallowing in self-pity, saying, "I thought this is what God wanted me to do. Why isn't this happening like I thought it would. I just feel so invisible." Thank you so much for writing what you did.

By: MoonPie

MoonPie — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:13:11 +0000

Just what I needed! I've been very down because i just got rejected from the major I wanted in college- piano performance- which is what I thought i'd be doing for the rest of my life. Apparently I still have a few bears to wrestle and some more sheep to herd! thanks for the encouragement.

By: Mark H

Mark H — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:41:02 +0000

Amen bro! Thanks for this – very encouraging. I hope and trust that you deepen in the knowledge and love of the Lord in this "invisible" time, and that you continue to do this throughout your life. I think some, or perhaps most, of the real Saints are people upon whom the spotlight of fame and recognition never shone, but who quietly, faithfully and servant-heartedly plugged away, loving the Lord and the people around them, and bringing the Kingdom in. Those are the people who will be the real heroes in heaven, the ones Jesus noticed all the time, but we didn't!

By: Becky Knight

Becky Knight — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:11:58 +0000

I can so relate to this. I have sensed God leading me to do a ministry that has nothing to do with the "day job" I'm in, and during the month of December, I had two unexpected opportunities come up in which I was able to do that ministry…and then go back to work the next day. I have felt that same sense of letdown that you described here. Thanks for the reminder of the importance of the seasons of invisibilty. Good stuff!