It’s been a while
Hello everyone…sorry for the delay in getting new content to my blog. Heidi and I have been extremely busy with some life transitions, but I think I’ll have some more time now to post.
God has been doing some amazing things at Haven of Hope and I’ll be sharing some of that with you in the next few days.
Keep my family in your prayers. Connor has pnemonia and is on anti-biotics and Hunter has been sick as well. I actually prayed the other day about Connor and said “Asthma, pnemonia, and acid reflex – you guys messed with the wrong kid! I’m putting you on notice!”….
Love you guys – let’s keep in touch.
Legere Family Pictures
On Monday, the Legere household made their way to the local portrait studio to have their holiday pictures taken. It was a flurry of “what shirt should I wear?”, “Connor, please don’t spill anything on your sweater!”, “Hunter, we can get your bottle in a minute”, “Is the iron still on?”, ”We need to leave here in 5 minutes!”, etc. It was enough to make your head spin. In the end we were able to pull everything together.
Right as we were getting ready to leave the house, Connor decided it was time to play with fiberglass so we had to rush him to the sink to wash his hands before it got “itchy”. It was very worth it and I wouldn’t have traded it even if I knew it advance how crazy it would be. Hunter and Connor did great (although I think the fact that Connor was going to be getting a lolipop if he was a good boy didn’t hurt any either!) and Heidi was beautiful as always. Enjoy the pictures and have a Happy Thanksgiving! I probably will not be blogging until early next week. God bless!!
Return on Investment
Well…today is my 27th birthday and I am definitely having a day of thought and reflection!
In my experience in the business world, a concept that I have heard a lot of is “return on investment”. Many leaders will not make any decision in regards to product strategy, staffing, marketing, etc. without getting an understanding of what their return on their investment will be. For example, they think through the thought: “if I hire an additional person, will these additional resource make it worth it to me in regards to my investment in paying this individual and in taking time to train them?” What they are trying to avoid is the situation where the time/money that they invest in a person or decision is less than any potential upside that they would receive.
Even as I ponder my last 27 years today, I am struck with the thought of “How does Jesus determine His Return on Investment in me?”. He has invested SO much in me and for me. How does He measure that?
Making it even harder is the fact that His view on my status in life is different that how others view my status in life. His view on whether I am successful or not is going to be different than how others view my success.
I do not have a college degree. (There…I said it!). 
I always wanted to get one. However, in mid-semester a few years ago, I prayed to God about how stressed out that I was feeling. He asked me a question:
Jesus: “Did I ask you to go to school?”
Me: “No, but you know that school is important so that I can get a good job?”
Jesus: “Have I needed your college degree so far?”
Me: “Nope. Don’t think so”.
Long story short, I quit school in mid-semester and that gave me ton more time to 1) spend with my family and 2) teach others about Christ. The spiritual reward was amazing. The school bill for unfinished classes was hard to swallow in a natural sense. Others have either directly told me or hinted at what a completely stupid idea that was to quit school. It doesn’t matter to me though because I followed what Jesus wanted me to do.
I can close my eyes and picture the faces of people that I had an opportunity to minister to. I can see the looks on their faces while they feel the presence of God for the first time. I can remember that moment when a particular spiritual truth was made clear to them as if a lightbulb was turned on. I can remember the tears of joy that I had as I watched many of them be baptized in Jesus name and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
According to the world’s scale, the return on investment for my decision to quit school was non-existent. According to the Lord’s scale, people’s lives were changed because I obeyed Him.
I will never be unsuccessful as long as I follow Him. I won’t every make a mess of my life if I do not get ahead of Him, but rather let Him lead. I will never be a failure if I put my trust in Him.
When I gave my life to Him, as Bill Johnson says, “I gave Him a blank page and signed my name at the bottom of the paper and told Him that He could fill in the blanks”.
What type of return on investment will you fight for today? Will you put all your effort into getting a return on investment for temporary things that will someday be like a vapor and be taken away? Or will you put all your efforts behind a spiritual return on investment that will be eternal?
I want to know that I am successful in His eyes. That’s all that matters to me.
Servant of a wicked cool God,
Matt Legere
“Bubbles later daddy”
Daddy! Bubbles!
Right in the middle of my busy day (working at home), I’m interruped by my son Connor asking me to do bubbles with him. I couldn’t really break away so my response to him was “bubbles later”. As most 2-years olds are, this answer only satisfied him for about 46.1 seconds. After that time elapsed, he was back to saying: “Daddy! Bubbles!” My workload hadn’t decreased during 46.1 seconds (approximate guess) so my response was the same “bubbles later”.
This went on for a while throughout that day and, before I knew it, the day slipped away and Connor was in bed before I remembered what I told him. It was probably the next day or two that now, instead of asking for bubbles, he pointed to the bubbles and said (kinda of sadly) “bubbles later daddy”.
I almost lost it. It hit me right then and there that, although he’s only 2 years old, I’m building parenting habits now! He now thinks that the bubbles is pronounced: “b-u-b-b-l-e-s_l-a-t-e-r“. He is at such a crucial stage where his personality and judgments are being formed and I blew it!
Later on that day, I made sure that me, Heidi, and Connor went to the park to play bubbles. Those simple words were enough of a wake up call to me that I need to honor my word to my son and truly live a life of no regrets.
Servant of a wicked cool God,
Matt Legere
Welcome to Matt Legere’s Blog…
Hello world! My name is Matt Legere and I’d like to let this post serve as official notice that my blog is alive! It’s alliiiivvveee!
The purpose of this blog is to share with you readers the heart of someone who has a consuming passion to see the Kingdom of God manifested in New England and New York. Pretty simple enough, right?
In the past, I’ve started blogs and written articles and have never stuck with it. (For all of you who read that previous stuff – thanks for the patience!) This time, I feel like there are things that God would like for me to share with you. He’s my boss so here we go!
While I have an initial idea of where this blog will go, I won’t set limitations around it either.
- We will review and discuss books, movies, sermons, etc. that have absolutely changed my life and will rock yours too!
- We’ll talk about spiritual concepts along with relevant life experiences/applications that God has used to help shape me and others for His purpose. My hope is that these concepts, experiences, applications, etc. will also help shape you into the destiny that God has for you.
- We will review spiritual concepts and principles that will help set us ablaze for the glory of Christ!
- We’ll also talk about practical life principles, such as family, finances, time management, careers, etc.
I’m hopeful that this process won’t be a one-way deal where I talk and people read without jumping in. Rather, it’s my prayer that God will somehow use this blog for His glory and that He’ll network people together for His purpose and His plan.
I’m far from perfect and have many more lessons in my walk with Jesus Christ, but if we dare to demonstrate the power of the Spirit of the Resurrected Christ living inside of us, we can truly turn our world upside-down again!
Matt Legere
