On the move again!

I love adventure.  I thrive in it!   This past year, I’ve come to know so many incredible people…truly, they are some of the most honoring, genuine people I’ve ever known and they challenge me to be more simply by being themselves.  I’ve learned that being in ministry, or going to church, isn’t about going to an event.  It’s about living in the moment every day.  It’s about each person we meet.  It’s striking up conversations with people while running through town.  It’s being kind to the grocery store attendant.  It’s talking through life-the good and the bad-and praying for eachother on Sunday morning in my apartment.  It’s about who we are, not where we are.  It’s about giving, encouraging, loving, serving.  I want to be outwardly focused.  Reflecting back on life, it’s not the places that comes to mind, it’s who I’ve become and who I’ve been with along the way.  

 

 

This past year has been packed with new friendships, growth, unexpected changes, challenges, crazy joy, worship, dance parties, best friends, kayaking on the lake, baseball games, roadtrips, brokenness, complete randomness and everything in between.  I’ve also been able to see and be a part of waking up a generation, and sending thousands out onto the mission field, in helping them recognize the intimacy and fullness that comes in knowing who God is and who we are in Him.

 

As we all know, all things must come to an end so that other things have a chance to begin.  God’s been prepping me for a while now and He’s just recently given me the green light.  He’s told me it’s time to get back to my roots.  It’s time to fly, is what He’s said.  On the way home from Atlanta last night, God started speaking, “I’m doing a new thing, I’m doing a new thing, I’m doing a new thing…”  This past season, I’ve grown, I’ve been refined up the wazoo (not always fun…but so good! :), and I’ve been blown away at the relationships that have developed in the midst of it all.  And now it’s time to continue the adventure…and so I go!