As I anticipate this wonderful and crazy journey I am about to embark on, I think of the movie “Into the Wild.”
Now, while I think it probably not the super best idea to cut up my social security card, and I am definitely staying away from those poisonous plants, and like seriously man, just give your parents a ring a ding ding!
I can still find beauty and clarity in the ethicality and decisions made throughout the film.
The main character was escaping.
Escaping the comfortable, escaping the less meaningful to pursue a world he couldn’t find just sitting around in his fancy car at an expensive law school. To pursue a raw version of himself, to find his true meaning, his true purpose, to find the beauty and unaltered parts of this world.
Now, I can see the ways God is changing me heart here. Hey, this guy might have a good point. But, I don’t want to just escape.
Keep with me here:
God didn’t create me to sit around on my bum-
He didn’t create me because he needed someone to climb that climb-
to be able to sing that song-
to be able to drive down that one back road (thank you West Virginia)-
He created me with specific talents and passions to reach out to this world, to be a light of His love.
If I can utilize all He’s given me to establish my life in a complete surrender and pursuit of Him and what He’s created me to be- well by golly I am going to become one awesome, fulfilled, and amazing gal!
I was not created to pursue those possessions, or that car, that job, those friends, BUT to go out and serve the world in the glory of the One who created me to live on it in the first place.
Now, let’s be honest here, how the heck am I going to do all that?
Like the main character of the movie- I’ve been amazingly blessed with the opportunity to participate in an 11 month long mission as a part of an even bigger ministry! Where I can put those things aside, to go out on a year-long journey across the world to find exactly who that person is, that one I was created to be. To be raw, to live out of a backpack, and to not take advantage of all I have been given
To use these talents, these abilities, and this compassion to SERVE and GROW in ways I can’t even imagine!
You are His children too. And He created you and you alone with your own talents, passions, and moral beliefs to become everything you can be, everything He has created you to be.
So put aside those other pursuits, even if just for a moment-
those unsatisfying relationships, that money, those shoes
and look up
Because the answers to your own worth and your own AMAZING beauty
The truth to your purpose in life-
are just a short ring a ding ding away
(PS, mom don’t worry we are not cutting up social security cards)
