I love life. I love to laugh, and to soak up every second of a good thing. I’m 24, but still act like a kid every opportunity I can. I’m always in search of adventure, and my eyes are usually on the future. I am passionate about discipleship, worship, and love. Intimacy with Jesus is the greatest privilege I have in this life – and my greatest prayer is that I would spend so much time with Him that I look, sound, smell, and feel like Him.
My family and close friends are very important to me. I’d pretty much do anything for them, and I hope they know that. I have been given a lot in life and don’t take it for granted.
I realized I was a mess in need of saving when I was seven, and I asked Jesus to come and do just that. I spent most of my childhood loving Him but not knowing what a relationship with Him could look like. Amidst all my junk, He was my Pursuer and He won in the end. He became my “magnificent obsession” sometime in late high school. I told Him I knew it would be hard, but I really wanted all of Him, forever. I went to college at Elon University where I studied psychology and joined a ministry called Campus Outreach where I had the opportunity to be discipled. Through that, I grew enormously in my understanding of God’s Word and how to walk with Him day-to-day.
In college, I was a really good student and servant of God. I did everything for Him, unto Him. In the summer before my senior year, I went to Swaziland for two months where God gave me a taste of His power and began to introduce me to His Spirit. I started praying that God would not only make me a woman of His Word, but a woman who walks by His Spirit! My senior year was a time where God began to draw me even closer to Him and truly became my Friend.
I was baptized in the Holy Spirit at Training Camp for the World Race and that began my journey with Him into even greater intimacy and surrender. While on the race the Lord completely broke me of everything I had been holding on to before; all my rights, my identity, my strategy, my understanding, my control. I was released from a spirit of fear into even more and more FAITH! Expectations I had been living under lost power. Blind spots in my life were revealed, past wounds began to be healed, and I received an extra dose of humility and brokenness. He has delivered me of so much and is faithful to continue until it is complete! He is showing Himself to me as my Daddy and my Husband, and continues to dream over me and show me who I really am.
Some things about me:
I love orphans. I have so much to learn from children and the poor. I love to read and am usually reading 12 books at a time. I love to let loose, dance around, and have a good time. I’m a pretty balanced introvert/extrovert. Warm chocolate chip cookies make my heart really happy. My nose makes a honking noise when I blow it (I bet you wanted to know that). I love to snuggle and to steal body heat from people. I’m pretty spontaneous. I go crazy for blown glass. I still love to play dress up – and love themed parties. I believe Jesus for miracles and expect Him to do the things He did in the New Testament. My favorite thing to see is the glimmer in someone’s eyes when they realize who Jesus is for the first time. I love this life God has given me – even with all the challenges – and can’t believe I get to spend it discovering HIM!
