Hey everyone, I wanted to give you all a quick update about how life has been this past month in Romania and what is to come. Tomorrow, I will be leaving my current ministry site to join my MOM and my step-dad Mark for my Parent Vision Trip! For the next 5 days some of my squad mates and their parents have the opportunity to join us out on the field to experience a little bit of what we have been doing these past 8 months. I am excited to see what the Lord has in store!
With that being said, after my parents leave I will enter into our official month 8 debrief. During this debrief, we will have team changes. The last time our teams changed was at the end of month 4 in Botswana, so my current team, Parresia and I, will be debriefing these last few months together as we head into the last 3 months of our race with our new teammates. After that I will let you know more about my team!
With all of this being said, I have learned a lot from the Lord this month about closeness and purpose. As month 8 is coming to an end, I have found myself becoming extremely sluggish and unmotivated. After experiencing this for the past month or so, I realized I still have the rest of my life to go! The race is not just these 11 months, but is the rest of our life which brought me to an old journal entry I wrote while I was in Nepal. I wanted to share with you all my journal entry that brought me encouragement as a reminder about what the purpose of my and your life is.
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Isn’t it beautiful? To live a life: so simply freeing knowing that nothing or no thing could ever bring me down? Am I crazy to believe that in this moment, here in Kathmandu, that I am catching a small glimpse of heaven? A glimpse of what life with God looks like eternally?
The sun shining. Birds chirping. A rooftop view of the city with mountains in the background surrounded by so many signs of life. A life crafted by God. Everything man-made and natural are signs of something so much bigger. More grand. More complex. More… more. And it all makes me wonder how people (and I) can go about life not knowing, not living, with the knowledge and feeling of being loved and known by a God who created all of this.
I mean, just look. Look around you at all the proof that there is a God who knows you. Like every detail about you, forgives you and makes all your flaws and mistakes good. Who loves you more than you could ever fathom or begin to comprehend. But he chose you. He created you. He made you because he wanted the world to have you.
He wanted you in it because he knew that at the tiniest molecular level, that you were important. That your being and living made/make/ and will make a difference.
That you are loved by someone.
That you love someone.
That your words, you existence, your small tasks, the things that go unnoticed, are actually all so important because you have an effect. You have an impact (whether you believe it or not) on those around you.
But most importantly, you have an effect on God. You are loved and adored by God. You are a prized possession of God whose worth can never be taken from you even if you lie and believe those lies, it will never be true.
You are worthy.
And no human words, no human actions, no thing of this world could tell you otherwise, because God loves you.
So feel things. Do things. Make things, create things! Because you can! Because they are your superpower. That your ability to live and live in love, is all the proof we need to know that there is a God who loved you and gave you a life to live.
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