I feel like my life has been in this constant stage of transition for the last few years. It’s hard to believe that in the last 6 years, I have come to know the Lord, open my heart to missions, learn what community is about, learn what serving is about, have experienced the miracles of the Lord, and have been to over 11 countries for His Kingdom. I have experienced hardships of all kinds, and I have experienced overwhelming joy in His presence. I have gone from living a normal college life, to experiencing life in an inner-city neighborhood, to a new type of community living with people who have experienced many of the things that I have. I feel like transitions never end for me.
I feel like the transitional period that I’m in right now is one that is of a challenge to me. I am learning a lot about myself and about what I need to survive.
God has been bringing me in more of a place to trust Him. He had called me to pick up my cross and to follow Him 6 years ago with trust that He will lead me. I have to be honest, sometimes I struggled with trusting fully, but because I had faith that He would not lead me astray, then I continued to follow. And then, when times would get tough again, I would think once again. For 6 years, I have followed Him, and I feel that I hear His voice louder and clearer with every step that I take to follow Him.
Now, He has led me into a place to trust Him even more. It’s a struggle, but I do trust Him! During the last two months of my Race, the Lord really began speaking to me about following Him into a place of needing community. My last week on the Race, He began to reveal those plans of community to me. I now live in community in Gainesville, GA.
Community. It is definitely work. And it is definitely different than what I have experienced in the past. But this is where I am, and this is where I am supposed to be. And the longer that I am here the more the Lord has been revealing to me.
I am not here just for community, but to hear the plans that the Lord has for me. Yes, in community, I am learning a whole lot. I’m learning patience, grace, love, forgiveness, boldness, confrontation, how to rebuke someone, and much more. But I’m also being reminded of the passion that I have for His Kingdom, and for the dreams that I have.
I want to see His Kingdom! I want to see it everywhere! I don’t want to miss out on being a part of it!
I want to see young adults go through a process of knowing the Lord! I want to see them realizing that they are capable of bringing the Kingdom!
I want to see God use me to minister to women and children in need! To open my heart and to break it for them!
I want to be used in the ways that the Lord has planned for me, even if that means more transitions!
At this time, I am committed to the World Race Admissions Department, to the community, and to the plans of the Lord.
