I am…
Never too much and always enough
Full of life
The crown of creation
A child of God
Accepted
A daughter and a friend
Beloved by the Father
Forgiven and Set free
A citizen of Heaven
Significant and Seen
Chosen
Strong
Beautiful
I am… learning who I am!
While being on the race I’m learning a lot about myself. I’m learning that… I’m not a fan of change, it’s easier for me to look at things one day at a time (rather than see the big picture), I enjoy having a voice and feeling like I’m heard, I love to hear about other peoples lives- when people care enough to tell ME details about their lives I feel loved and important. I’m learning that I love being impressed by God’s creation, being still before God is really important for me- it fills me with peace, and how to be present. I’m learning that I CAN live without my mom, I really love my brothers and my parents so much (I already knew that but I just wanted to shout them out. Love you guys), I’m really bad at cooking, and I like to play the guitar. And many more things!
I am learning about who the Bible says I am… Psalm 139 says I am fully known and loved. It says I am fearfully and wonderfully made! The Bible tells me I am all of the things I listed above and I’m learning that they are true! Through the Bible I am finding my identity in Him.
I am also learning about who God is calling me to be. I think I’m getting a good picture of what God wants me to do for the rest of my life… to LOVE!! Love everyone, all the time. Love God. Love others. Love myself. God is opening my eyes to see how to love. He is molding my heart to understand how important it is. I think it’s so cool that I don’t have to wait for God to tell me to go love someone… I can just go do it! All the time! So God is calling me to be a woman of love. To do whatever I have to do tomorrow, in 10 years, in 20 years, with love!
In Costa Rica I’ve found that a really good way to love people is just by simply learning and remembering peoples names. We have an awesome bus driver named Alfredo. He doesn’t speak any English and I definitely don’t speak Spanish. As you can imagine that makes conversations with him very… short. But, for the first couple weeks Alfredo did everything he could to memorize all 50 of our names. The whole bus ride (everyday) he would shout out our names and expect us to raise our hands. Whenever he would see us walking around the house he would just point and yell our names with a huge smile on his face. The intentionality he had with learning each of our names made me feel so loved! I learned I can take this new tactic to ministry. Even though I can’t really have the best conversations with the kids I can intentionally learn their names and yell it at them every time I see them in hopes that they feel seen and loved just like I do with Alfredo.
I still have a lot to learn about myself. If I’ve learned this much already (in just 2 1/2 months), I can’t imagine how much I will have learned by the end of these 9 months! So crazy! I’m really enjoying learning more about who exactly Anna Katherine Massey is.
Also I wanted to throw this in here because I think it’s important- Love your neighbor as you love yourself. I could write a whole other blog about what loving your neighbor looks like (and I probably will) but for now we can focus on loving ourselves. Love who you are- who God made you to be! You are seen! You are important! And above all else… YOU ARE LOVED.
