I have been feeling the holiday season weighing heavy on my heart over the past few weeks. I have been asking myself WHY in the world did I get chosen to go on this race. Wondering why I will have to leave the place I finally call home to radically uproot and change my life. It is so easy to get comfortable in the lives we have, but isn't that also a great thing? I feel almost caught in the middle of it all. I wish I could understand what my plan i, but I am quickly reminded that God is leading me down this path to teach me. With all of that said his lessons have a round about way of showing up in my day. I was sitting in on confirmation when my boss played a song named “Legacy” by Nichole Nordeman. Her words were this:
“I want to leave a legacy. 
How will they remember me? 
Did I choose to love? Did I point to You enough 
To make a mark on things? 
I want to leave an offering. 
A child of mercy and grace who blessed your name unapologetically and leave that kind of legacy.”
So for those of you who are as confused as I am as to why I am uprooting everything I have ever known to be the hands and feet of God, well that is your answer: I want to leave a legacy. I want to follow what other people have already done and pave a path for those who will follow behind me. I want to set an example. I want to help people see what is possible. I want to teach people. I want to learn. I want to touch the lives of people I never thought I could reach. I want to make a change in this big world. I want to uproot my life so that others who can not do not have to. I want to feed the families we cannot get to. I want to build houses for people to live in. I want to love those who don't know what love feels like. I want to live out of a backpack for 11 months traveling the world over praising God’s word. I want to understand what it is like to live with nothing to appreciate the everything I have. I have the opportunity of a lifetime sitting right in front of me, just within reach. All I need is your support and your prayers. I hope you understand how important that is to me.
Get the word out. Teach all these things. And don’t let anyone put you down because you are young. Teach believers with your life: by word, demeanor, by love, by faith, by integrity. Stay at your post reading Scripture, give counsel, teaching. Timothy 4:12-13
