"When I was a child, I talked like a child, thought like a child and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I did away with childish things"
1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was young I was obsessed with Dinosaurs. I remember Jurassic Park coming out and being in awe of it as I finally got to see my fantasies in real life (Obviously I'm talking about seeing the dinosaurs come to life, and not so much the lawyer being eaten on the toilet)
My brother also liked dinosaurs, but no where near as much. Whilst I had book after book looking at the subject, and videos and activity dig sets which were all incredible, he was only mildly interested.

His big thing was space. And again, I liked space, I thought it was pretty cool. It goes on forever and is vast beyond imagination, what's not to like about it?
But he really liked it, even to the point of having his own spaceman costume, helmet included. He had books, he had pictures, anything to do with space and getting there, including many models of airplanes, he loved the idea of travelling into the sky and beyond to space.

We had very different mindsets. I loved the past, I loved investigating these creatures that had never been see, whilst he gaze to the future. The greatest part was though that we were able to cross over in our interests.

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In some people's eyes, they look at me and still see a little boy. In fact I look at me and still see a little me. I remember reaching 16 and thinking "When I'm 18, I'll be sorted, life will be great, I'll know where I'm going, I'll know what I'm doing, it will be fantastic." Needless to say I'm now 23 and still no knowing where I'm going in many ways. The difference is now that I am comfortable with that because God's got it in hand. I was comfortable with it once before, until I reached 14/15 and I was told I needed a plan, I needed some direction.

I love how in the scriptures it talks about coming back to that child like innocence. It's like God looks at all are worries, all are concerns and says "why worry? Be a child again, enjoy being with me." And what I love is that God shaped us from day one.
He made us unique, individual, even twins are different!

My brother and I, we often got compared, and sometimes I didn't like it. We look similar in many ways, we have similar voices, we talk with similar mannerisms and have similar interests. The difference is now, I know we are called to different things, and that we each have our own part to play. Even as a child we were completely different for all our similarities. I liked dinosaurs, he liked spacemen.

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These days my brother is into sound. He works as a sound engineer in the north of England (we're still praying into that one) and is heavily involved with the set up teams and the running of the tech-department. It's been an honour over the years to have the chance to be invited up to his church and run the visual side of things for gigs they've put on. It's been a fantastic time. Now my main focus though is youth ministry, it's an incredibly important part of my life and I would never want to give it up unless God called me to. I still am involved in some tech stuff. He is still involved in youth stuff. We're both unique, God called individauls to our own ministries. What excites me is knowing they cross over. I liked dinosaurs, he liked spacemen.