First, I want to apologize for my non-existent blog entries over the last month or so. Entering into the blogging world is not only entirely new for me, it’s also a bit of a challenge. But sometimes there is news you can’t help but want to share, celebrate, and scream off the top of rooftops so I here I am…blogging!
With that said, my training camp flights to Georgia are booked & not only have I met my first September deadline… I have exceeded it!
Over the last couple weeks I was not just showered with love, I have been absolutely POURED on. I found myself amongst a community that loves tremendously. The love from the Cantina, my family, friends, even acquaintances has me bursting at the seams. So much love in my life and yet my mind can’t help but wander to all the people in this world who haven’t experienced such real, raw, genuine love. The kind of love that Jesus talks about that comes in all shapes and forms, that never grows tired, or is completely finished finding ways to be fully expressed. God has blessed me with an overabundance of love and now I get the opportunity to take that overabundance of love I feel and share it with 11 countries all over this world. It’s crazy cool how God is working through so many to love me so I can take that surplus of love and share it with the least of these. So gang, thanks for filling me up to the brim with love so that it may overflow and get passed along to the little children of this world, the sick, the hungry, the poor, and the powerless.
{Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. Psalm 63:3}
So often uncertainty of our future causes anxiety and a temptation to depend upon ourselves rather than God – especially when deadlines and money come into the picture. {Oh how easy it is to forget how big God is}. Boy was I taken to my knees and reminded how important it is to have a child-like faith. To be completely dependent upon God, for all of our needs and to trust in God like a child with their parents who instinctively know who provides for them and who they can and must depend upon. I hope this blog leaves you encouraged to stop looking for God to reveal the future and remove all risk from our lives. Instead look to God – his character and his promises – and thereby have confidence to take risks for His name’s sake. We risk because God does not risk.
More fundraising, deadlines, and risk is ahead in this world race journey. But I’m encouraged to walk into the future in God glorifying confidence and the curiosity of a wide-eyed child not because the future is known to me but because it is known to God && that’s all I need to know.
Until next time..
xoxo
