Thank you.
Thank you Jesus for sending me. Thank you family for sending me. Thank you friends for sending me. Thank you fellow believers for sending me.
Thank you.
This is my first blog. EVER. So as I write, I feel that my writing style will evolve to be more concise and effective. But this first one is gonna be a long one. Please be patient with me.
Supporters, it is my desire to take you on this journey with me. The first step to doing that is by subscribing to my blog so you can read the wild story that you are sending me to live.
BUT you should know…
As you read this, I ask that you do not judge me based on the person you may have once experienced from me. I am not who I once was. I am not who I was in high school. I am not who I was in college.
I have been radically changed for the glory of God.
I am now a cageless bird. I have been freed from a cage of fear and shame. I am free to sing and soar to new heights and places and whatever other things birds do best.
I am free because I have been beloved, taken, broken, healed, freed, transformed, renewed, and blessed by the Love of Abba God, through experiencing Him personally.
Some of you may have experienced this. If you have, you know that this realization freedom, renewal and healing happens in a moment but the daily, practical transformation of believing into your life is a refining process.
So who am I now?
MY TWO MINUTE TESTIMONY
I had a teacher in high school who has forever influenced me. He used to say “In light of eternity, what does fill in the blank really matter?”. As a student, I usually filled in the blank with homework assignments. In college, that question helped prioritize my overloaded agenda.
But after college, that question was pivotal in my search for a career. I couldn’t settle on anything that I didn’t feel was eternally relevant. Thus, an intense, several month soul search began.
I began to become restless and impatient but through a series of events the Lord brought the World Race (WR) and some crucially important people into my life.
From the moment I began learning about the WR, I knew this was where I belonged. Simple living, combined with ministry that inherently involved adventure was inviting me.
Yet nothing could be more scary.
I have to step out on faith in every way imaginable: financially, into a new community, with my health, with my family.
But when you hear Love calling, you just have to respond, don’t you? I heard it when I read this verse. Jesus said, Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons.
Matthew 10:7
WHAT!?
No. He Said It. To his followers. A group to which I include myself. But I was not doing it.
Now I am.
I have chosen to be obedient. And so have you, by supporting me, listening to what he has called you to do.
So Thank you.
Thank you for listening to Jesus. Thank you for your obedience. Thank you for sending me.
And thank you, Jesus.
