I've always been up for an adventure. I graduated college in 2003, and had a dream to back pack in Europe. 9 years, 4 moves, and 3 states later, I quit my unfulfilling job and backpacked Europe for 2 months on my own. Returned to DC where I got another unfulfilling job, except that it lead me to the World Race. Now I'm ready to embark on the next stage of my life and faith.
As for how I came to faith, it was a series of steps. One which Anne Lamott describes in her amazing book Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith much more beautifully than I ever could, "My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather from a series of staggers that took me from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up as I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear. When I look back at some of these early resting places…I can see how flimsy and indirect a path they made. Yet each step brought me closer to the verdant pad of faith on which I somehow stay afloat today."
I don't know what will come after the lily pad that is The World Race. But I am confident that one will come. And that when I take that step God will not let me sink.
On a more superficial level, I like the following: ridiculousness, music, games, fireworks, Doctor Who, food, coffee, beer, reading, movies, musicals, Stewart/Colbert, Paul Newman, vinyl, Tony Horton, biking, flip flops
I don't like: bugs, extreme stereotypes, making 2 trips to bring in groceries, folding laundry, wearing shoes
