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Never had a blog before, I think the word is hilarious,and I still don’t feel cool enough to have one, but here goes nothin’…

 

 I’m Amber and I just graduated from the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville,IN with a major that I’m still not sure how to define- International Studies+ French. I think I’m still in some type of twilight zone that I’m officially done with school. Can’t believe that I have a semi-plan now for after school because I’m
usually the first one without a plan. God stuff totally got me into the
World Race and I’m so thankful and so undeserving.

 

I heard about the World Race from one of my friends, and after I got totally sucked into the cool video, I was sold. Ever since I went to Uganda last summer I’ve been craving missions stuff, which I feel creepy using the word “missions” since it still makes me kind of cringe because it’s so religious sounding. It wasn’t too long ago that I became a Christian, and before then I used to hate hearing words like “worship” and “missions” and one of my fave’s “stepping down”-because when church people quit things, they don’t just quit them, they “step down” from them… bada bing.

 

Anyways, now I know that church, God, Christians, missions, worship, and everything else I didn’t get, or better yet,care to look into, are so much more than what I used to completely write off as shallow religious hypocrisy. I’m not saying I get everything now completely, but I know for a fact, now more than ever, that God has brought me through so much and saved me from my pit in so many ways. I believe that God is who He says He is and I need help everyday to believe that I am who God says I am.

 

 Can’t tell you how excited I am. I’m also scared/overwhelmed sometimes if I’m being honest, but I was scared before I went to Uganda last year, and it changed my life, so when I get freaked, that’s what I think about.

 

 I love my fourteen year old sister, and my mom, who’s from England,so I’ve gotten to visit fam there a lot, which is always so cool. I have an awesome “Big Sister” like from the Big Brother/Big Sister Organization, who I met when I was seven, and her and her fam are really cool too. I love to laugh, who doesn’t I guess, and I really like music. I play the cello, and like to sing too much probably. This song by Sara Groves(When the Saints), that I’ve listened to more than I’ve seen Mrs. Doubtfire(my favorite movie), reminds me of the World Race,

 

“I see the long quiet walk along the Underground Railroad

I see the young missionary and the angry spear
I see his family returning with no trace of fear
I see the long hard shadows of Calcutta nights
I see the sister standing by the dying man’s side
I see the young girl huddled on the brothel floor
I see the man with a passion come and kicking down the door
I see the man of sorrows and his long troubled road
I see the world on his shoulders and my easy load
And when the Saints go marching in
I want to be one of them”

Viva la World Race 2010 and here’s to being one of the Saints she talks about on this journey of a lifetime.