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It’s funny how most of _______ is living your life with open hands. You tend to go about your day normally, waiting for interruptions. Doing things you’d normally do, like going to the grocery store or walking to work, and you’re given opportunities for interruptions. Opportunities to pause and listen in. To make a new friend, to pray for someone.
This month looks a lot like interruptions. Teaching English. Hanging out with college students. Spending time on the beach. Going to cafes.
Most of the time, it’s making people feel seen where they’re at. Calling them by name. Hoping to have an opportunity to share your story and praying it moves them to feel something, anything. Compelling them to want more.
This week I got to share my story twice. Once on the _____, once in the _____. Vanessa and I got to talk to our first friend about what _____ has done in our lives. Our host shared the _____ with her in her heart language. We got to sit like friends. Yet, she said she wanted to give her life to _____ later in life. Another day. When she’s older and has more figured out.
It made me think of the amount of friends I have that have said the same thing: later, one day, another time.
But if there’s one thing I’ve learned on this journey of constant changes, is that you can’t waste a single day.
Time moves FAST.
You sleep too long and it’s over.
I’ve already had four rounds of goodbye this year and I’m getting ready to complete my fifth. You never know what the day may bring. Life with the _____ is crazy and wild if you let Him take control. It’s so adventurous. Everyday I go to sleep wondering how I got there. I’m filled with this urgency to not waste it. To not let it pass without being intentional with the moments.
The next day (yesterday), I got to share my story again. This time with a girl that had only come to English club for a week. I had spent a total of 4 hours with her. As we all sat in our _______________, I got to tell her what freedom feels like. What purpose feels like. What hope is. As one of the students shared her story with pure conviction and tears, our girl sat on the edge of her seat- ready and willing.
Last night, this college student decided to follow _____. And it was amazing to celebrate!
A few months ago I would have been terrified to share the gospel in a closed country. I would have been scared to interfere. But this urgency… this urgency removes the fear.
If I could ask anything of you it would be this: live interrupted.
Live willing to let the Spirit take you on a wild adventure.
Because _____ has more in store for you than you could ever ask or imagine.
Because this life is just a moment.
Be willing to go off course.
