To anyone who hasn’t unsubscribed to my blog, well for one, thanks for your support while I was on the Race…no really thank you!! I am not the woman I was four years ago, I can tell you that much…but also sorry if you forgot that you had subscribed to this and are now receiving an email update out of nowhere…I am just as surprised that I still have a blog ?????? but what a great way to catch some of you up…
It has been three years since I have returned home from the Race, moved to Canada with the fam jam, worked a few different service industry (aka coffee shop) jobs, attended and graduated from Seminary, and yet I find myself in a similar place to where I was at the time I wrote my last blog…searching for what comes next…
But…
Somehow it’s also different. I am convinced of what God has called and equipped me to do…scary thought as I am unemployed in this field, but it doesn’t minimize or negate the calling at all.
I have been called into Student Life/Development…for those of you who know my family…well yes, that’s exactly what my dad does! I have loved the experiences I have had working with youth the last few years, but it has still left a bit of a void…it’s not quite the age group that I feel equipped to relate to…for me it’s the college-age young adults figuring out what comes next, who God is in all of the struggles they are facing, what to do with all the information they are receiving, how to hear God in the noisy, busy, cluttered lives we lead, etc.
I spent some time at a conference this spring/early summer put on by the Association for Christians in Student Development (ACSD) and I felt like I was coming home…these were my people…they were speaking my language…and they give a rip about the things that stir my heart!! So of course coming home after this adventure was a bit weird, I was hoping to have a job lined up before going, or soon after coming home so I could leave Starbucks and move on with life. Well things never seem to go as I plan…so that didn’t happen, but I really felt like regardless of my lack of somewhere to go, I was done with my position as a shift supervisor, I was ready to take that leap of faith, live off of my savings, and try not to be a prime example of my generation…because I am still living at home…(thanks Mom and Dad you’ve been very tolerant to say the least)…I have seen God work many a miracles in my life and the lives of those around me so I know that anything is possible! I want to couch this all by saying I am not trying to test God in this, but to testify to His calling and His plans.
Bringing it all back to the title of this blog, “Prayer…what an adventure,” I have been so encouraged through prayer. I have been brought down a peg or two by prayer, and I have begun to understand more of the value of prayer. Prayer changes things, it heals, it encourages, it communes, it shapes and defines the relationship we have with our Creator…but ultimately it connects us to God. We are free to yell, rant, and rage, laugh, weep, and praise, bargain, barter, and beg…though I need to more frequently just shut up and listen…
God is enough.
God is faithful.
God is love.
And he can be reached at any time, in any place, about any thing or any one…all through prayer. God is shaping me through prayer. I don’t know what is next, I don’t know where I will be in a month…but I know that I have people praying for me, I have had many a person pray with me and it has been such a blessing to feel God working through His Body, the Church, and my prayer is that I am not alone in experiencing that closeness!!
I am spending a lot of my time in prayer…so instead of asking for prayer…I am asking TO pray…
If there is anything in your life, big or small, that you want covered in prayer please comment here or shoot me an email ([email protected]) I want to do my part to give back to the community that has given me so much!!
Peace ‘n blessins y’all
Brittany
