2015
WOW! I can honestly say this has been the most insane year of my life so far. I think it was because this year was surrounded by God. For the first time in my life…my life was dedicated to the Lord.
As I think about what all this year was I am so honored to have been chosen by God for this life.
Here is a small list of all that this year was and how incredibly crazy it is that this is my reality:
Climbed the base of the largest volcano in South America.
Parasailed and stepped foot in the Pacific ocean for the first time.
Finally got to go horse back riding with my mom.
Learned to dance salsa.
Swung on a swing over a mountain.
Went white water rafting.
Preformed spontaneously in a Rotary Club showcase with students from all over the world.
Babysat the most amazing children and feel in love with kids for the first time in my life.
Said goodbye to my friends and family for a year.
Woke up every morning to the sound of worship music in India.
Prayed healing over a women in a slum and fell in love with her.
Shared the gospel for the first time.
Participated in a 6 hours worship session.
Was baptized in the Holy Spirit.
Learned that I have been given gifts including the prophetic.
Watched a blind man jam out on 3 different instruments in a one room cement home.
Played numerous games with children in an orphanage.
Bathed nuggets everyday from a well.
Taught english in a one room brick slum house to 30+ kids.
Learned that children are my passion.
Hung out on a river boat in Cambodia for hours.
Played blackjack for the first time and lost $10.
Flooded a 2 story house.
Walked the ruins of Ankor Wat.
Ate a tarantula.
Ate dog and sting ray all in the same week.
Saw the devastation of a genocide.
Made a great friend in a Muy Thai boxer from Paris.
Had a Muy Thai boxing lesson.
Rode an elephant.
Danced my butt off in every tuk tuk in Thailand.
Laughed so hard I cried over and over again.
Lived 20 minuted away from the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket.
Lived in a children’s home.
Learned to play the ukulele.
Saw a kid come to know God.
Sang in the choir at Catholic Mass more than once.
Fell in love with a little girl named Linda.
Ate the best meal of my life at a 5 star buffet restaurant.
Rode a camel.
Sand boarded down a sand dune in the Namibian desert.
Saw God show up like never before.
Found my calling.
Found myself.
Found God.
This year has been more than I could have every imagined. I have been to 7 different countries, met some amazing people, seen God actively working all around me, and have just been blown away by His goodness.
As I sit in my hostel on the party street of Cape Town, South Africa all I want to do is be with the Lord as I reign in the New Year. I want my year to end with what is most important and begin with it too. I want to start it with what I want next year to look like as I finish the race and head home to settle back into reality.
I want 2016 to be a year when I say yes to what God has for me even more than I did this year.
Bring it on 2016. I am ready.
