Tom Rees

It was a really interesting to hear the story of Tom Rees and get a chance to discuss how that really reflected and influenced his life as he continued to grow up. Through his childhood he has multiple father figures in his life and as he told his story it was clear that his relationships with his father figures really shaped his life.

I have talked with people before who have taken events similar to those in Tom’s life and used them as a crutch or as an excuse as to why they aren’t required to try in life, but this was not what I gathered through Tom’s story.

We talked a lot about how his father figures influenced his life. It was encouraging to hear Tom talk about how that didn’t paralyze him in his life, but rather he had to deal with the issues that arose from it, but it pushed him to go deeper and do more for the kingdom and that was a really interesting to hear, that something like that doesn’t have to freeze you in your walk, but it can drive you further, and that is always something we need to hear, and something we need to be reminded of. Sure the things in our past come with different things that we need to work through, but those things should propel us forward rather than hold us back.