About me…what do people even want to know!? 21 years in 1 blog..I guess I’ll just start with the basics. I live in the grand state of Indiana and have all my life. (Yes..there’s lots of corn.) I’m technically a senior at Purdue, really ready to be done, but have an extra year since next semester will be spent in other parts of the world. woo hoo! I LOVE coffee and coffee shops. My favorite thing to do is definitely sit in a coffee shop with a friend sipping hot coffee and having great convo, and most of the time it’s about how great God is. It’s perfect! I also love to read. Once I start a good book, I just can’t stop. I think that’s called an addiction…I don’t know. Anyway, I really love sports too. Running and biking outside in the country is fabulous! Biking across the country some day would be a dream..weird I know 🙂
My family consists of my mom, dad, 2 older brothers, a sister-in-law, and a nephew who will be here this week. I couldn’t be more excited to be an aunt!!! They’re all great though, different in their own way. We’ve been close all my life with my parents emphasizing the importance of family. They raised us kids to love everyone, to be good people, and to cherish family, however, we weren’t raised in the church. God didn’t get my attention until I came to college when He gave my life a complete 180 and helped me walk in the opposite direction towards him. The last 3ish years of my life have been the craziest but the BEST years of my life. I yearn to experience more of His love and give that to others, to worship Him with my life, to grow to know Him more, and simply let Him lead me to follow his will. I want more of Him than ever before!!!
My family consists of my mom, dad, 2 older brothers, a sister-in-law, and a nephew who will be here this week. I couldn’t be more excited to be an aunt!!! They’re all great though, different in their own way. We’ve been close all my life with my parents emphasizing the importance of family. They raised us kids to love everyone, to be good people, and to cherish family, however, we weren’t raised in the church. God didn’t get my attention until I came to college when He gave my life a complete 180 and helped me walk in the opposite direction towards him. The last 3ish years of my life have been the craziest but the BEST years of my life. I yearn to experience more of His love and give that to others, to worship Him with my life, to grow to know Him more, and simply let Him lead me to follow his will. I want more of Him than ever before!!!
That’s a little bit about me, but I’ll share what the last 5 months of my life have looked like. In June and July He gave me the opportunity to spend time in Nicaragua with AIM. I couldn’t wait to experience a new adventure like that and serve others, but little did I know he had so much more in store for me. I saw Him like never before, and to say the least He ruined my life. I’m forever changed because of that experience. I can’t be satisfied just doing the school thing and being comfortable in West Lafayette, Indiana. I want to stand out and look crazy in the eyes of the world..after all that’s what we’re called to do. We’re not supposed to blend in with the people around us. No, we’ve been called to something much greater than the “normal” life we try to live.
Anyway, while in Nicaragua He began to call me to this trip. I was super excited then became scaaaarrrreeed. “What would my parents think and how would they react? Oh no, this won’t be ok. It’s interrupting my college path, and as a 21 year old senior at Purdue about to finish a degree you don’t just up and leave to go across the world for a few months, especially when everything is set and ready to go including an apartment lease.” As those thoughts came to mind, I started to turn from the calling trying to tell myself it was just a silly idea that I made up. Fast forward a couple months and well…I’m signed up for the trip and soon going to spend a few days at training camp with the rest of my team. God is so much more than an apartment lease or a semester in school..the lives we will bring hope to is so much more than life here in West Lafayette for a semester of classes. He has called me to this trip, and I want to do nothing less than to please him and obey by dropping MY plans to hold on to his…I mean come on..He’s a perfect God which means a perfect plan and perfect love. Nothing better than that!!! <3
Anyway, while in Nicaragua He began to call me to this trip. I was super excited then became scaaaarrrreeed. “What would my parents think and how would they react? Oh no, this won’t be ok. It’s interrupting my college path, and as a 21 year old senior at Purdue about to finish a degree you don’t just up and leave to go across the world for a few months, especially when everything is set and ready to go including an apartment lease.” As those thoughts came to mind, I started to turn from the calling trying to tell myself it was just a silly idea that I made up. Fast forward a couple months and well…I’m signed up for the trip and soon going to spend a few days at training camp with the rest of my team. God is so much more than an apartment lease or a semester in school..the lives we will bring hope to is so much more than life here in West Lafayette for a semester of classes. He has called me to this trip, and I want to do nothing less than to please him and obey by dropping MY plans to hold on to his…I mean come on..He’s a perfect God which means a perfect plan and perfect love. Nothing better than that!!! <3
That’s my life in a nutshell. Basically, I just love Jesus and want to constantly be transformed to look and act more like Him. I want to do what seems impossible and appears to be crazy simply because He’s bigger than anyone can grasp and He can do that stuff. He’s God. He’s mine and I’m His.
