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ABOUT ME
One day I was going through some pictures at my mom’s house. I found this picture of myself when I was about a year old. I had the most awesome bright red hair, the prettiest white ruffled little dress on, and I was just COVERED in dirt. I love that picture. I show it to people to prove that it started early. Ever since I can remember, I have been a tomboy. My childhood was spent with stringy hair, skinned knees and elbows, and plenty of dirt! I spent my high school years involved in three varsity sports plus band. I played soccer in college for a year. I try to coach soccer when I can.
Like all of us when we get out of college, I thought I knew everything. I now know the cure for knowing everything. This cure is commonly referred to as teaching � teaching middle school in particular. I quickly learned that I didn’t quite know as much as I thought I did. And surely I didn’t know half as much as my students did. Did you know that 13 year olds know everything? Just ask one � they’ll be sure to tell you. During that particular point in my life, I wasn’t really paying much attention to God. I do believe he used teaching to get my attention. Shortly after I began my first year of teaching, I found myself a church and planted my scrawny rear end in that pew every Sunday! Only Jesus could save me from those hooligans. 😉
Over the past few years and in this last year in particular, God has really been teaching me a lot. I decided that I had it backwards, Jesus wasn’t saving me from the hooligans; he was saving the hooligans from me! He has changed me so much! One day I hope that he’ll save the hooligans THROUGH me! Wouldn’t that be cool? I am totally in love with my God!!! He is my strength, my refuge, and my ever present help in time of need. He restores, saves, forgives, heals, blesses, disciplines, convicts, cherishes, provides, guides, and LOVES me!!!! He is my constant source of peace and joy no matter what circumstance I face. His grace and mercy astound me. Every day, I seek to be more like him and to learn more about him. This is a process I expect I’ll continue until the day I die.
I am a person who will totally love you for who you are. I don’t get close to people easily but once I do, I’d do anything for you. I love to be around people who challenge me. I love to talk about history. As an unfortunate byproduct of my profession, I also like to talk teacher. I am silly and sarcastic. I love to play. I LOVE LOVE LOVE music! One of my favorite things to do is to drive with the windows down, the music up as loud as it will go, and just belt it out. I don’t think that people driving with their windows down around me enjoy my singing time as much as I do, though.
Seriously, though, I have a real passion for young people � teenagers in particular. They can be very difficult, but there is nothing like it when you can make a connection with them. God has been using me and teaching me like crazy since I have become a youth leader at church. And while this passion is very real and very strong, God has been pulling at my heart do so something bigger. I know that he is telling me to leave my nets at once in order to follow him. I don’t know why he is asking me to do this crazy thing, but I have learned to trust Him. He has awakened in me a real passion for the world and a real desire to just BE the love of Christ to people around the world. I am SO EXCITED about what the future holds!!
