God spoke to me through Taylor Swift today. Here’s what He said:
I don’t know about you
But Grace, you’re 22!
Everything will be alright
If you keep Me next to you
You don’t know [much] about me
But I’ll bet you want to
Everything will be alright
If we just keep dancing [around the world] like you’re
22, ooh-ooh
22, ooh-ooh
Ok. Maybe I made that up. But it kinda fits right?!
Today I turned 22. And I have a pretty good feeling that 22 is going to be one of the most incredible years of my life.
While TSwizzle may not have had Jesus in mind when writing “22,” it’s funny how applicable her words are about the next season of my life.
“Everything will be alright, if you keep Me next to you”
So. True.
Through the ups and downs of even Training Camp last week, the simple truth from Joshua 1:9 remained: “the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”
In Guatemala, God will be with us. In Nicaragua, God will be with us. In the Philippines, in Vietnam, in Thailand, in India, in Nepal, in Botswana, in Swaziland, and in the final 2 mystery countries: God will be with us. He is on our side. And everything will be alright if we stay in close intimacy with Him.
“You don’t know [much] about me, but I’ll bet you want to”
The truth is, I don’t know that much about God. And I desperately want to know more! It always kind of blows my mind when I really learn something new about the Lord. I don’t mean the Sunday-school-answer kind of learn; I mean the real, deep understanding that “God doesn’t call the equipped, He equips the call.” When a lesson like that is learned in an experiential, tangible, life-changing way, it becomes more than words to be comforted by but a truth that you can bank your life on.
“We’ll just keep dancing [around the world] like you’re 22”
Precious blog-followers: I cannot WAIT to DANCE my way around the world! Fellow squad-mates who witnessed some of my epic moves at training camp: oh just wait. It’s going to get so. much. better. Some of my most cherished memories from my time in Senegal were the moments our family maids Awa and Fatou were teaching me how to dance Senegalese and I taught them some “American” moves, whatever that means. I am a firm believer in dancing as a universal language. And it is going to be so much stinkin fun to share the love and joy of Jesus through my hilariously dorky dance moves.
And of course, as T. Swift closes her amazingly catchy song, “I gotta have you, I gotta have youuu.”
This can be taken so many ways: Jesus, I gotta have You. Teammates, I gotta have you. Squadmates, I gotta have you. Squads Leaders, Coaches, Mentors, Prayer Warriors, family members, friends: I gotta have you. I certainly can’t do this thing alone and I am sure glad that so many of you have said “YES” to coming alongside me and Jesus on this crazy thing we call the World Race. I gotta have you.
To another year of loving and serving King Jesus,
Forever His,
Grace
