Celebrate (My Expectations)

So, here I am blogging in utter excitement for what is going to happen in September 2013 when I leave the United States, my family, my friends, my sweet Holly (my dog) and my education. God has been carrying me so compassionately and so lovingly through this entire process and I am so blessed. He has shown me so much about myself and my calling in this world during this time than I have ever experienced in the three years of searching for my "wordly calling" at a college university. I thought I was called to be a Biology teacher- my main goal was to get students to be excited about learning. I wanted them to want to learn and actually feel like coming to class was something worthwhile to them…..

But little did I know that God DID want me to teach

I'm excited to finally realize that I am called to teach. I am called to love. I am called to be obedient. I am called to celebrate.

I am ready to celebrate the last 21 years of life He has brought to me leading up to this. I am ready to celebrate the friendships I have made, the memories that have blessed my heart, the lessons that I've learned, and the person God is continually shaping me to be.

So, what are my expectations of this trip, you may ask? I expect to experience God at level of rawness that I have never seen before. I expect to see God move in ways that I can't and probably won't be able to imagine. I expect to fall in love with Christ in a way that's far deeper than I can think to imagine in this season of my life. I expect to walk life with the W- Squad in such a way that makes us as close as brothers and sisters. I expect to fall flat on my face a lot of times but knowing God will pick me up. I expect to miss everyone from back home quite a bit. I expect to fail everyday- but His grace never ceases to take me back.  I expect to be radically changed for the Gospel.

I expect God to get ALLof the glory.
AMEN.

In the next four months of this season of my life I am going to be fundraising my little butt off with Jesus. If there is anyway that you could support me in prayer or monetary blessings, that would just mean the world to me. I am so excited to take the beauty of the Gospel and share it to those all around the world.