I keep saying that I don’t know what to blog about, and that usually when I blog, I am so suddenly inspired that I can type one out in a matter of minutes! Well, the inspiration has not come, but I feel as if I should share what is going on in my life in a brief blog nutshell.
With the new year, came a new team. I was hesitant with having an all girls team to lead, it was no secret. I have three brothers, and I came from a team of having three guys. But I didn’t know that I would have this team! From the moment we first came together, we have been open and honest with one another, we have held each other accountable, and we have encouraged one another immensely in our goals and aspirations. If I knew that I was going to have this team to lead, I would have had no worries at all.
I was talking to my parents the other day, and without realizing it, they gave me some affirmative feedback. They told me that since being on the race, they have seen a lot of growth in my communication. The taming of my tongue has been something I have struggled with for a long time. My sentences drip with sarcasm, my conversations are filled with dry humor. I am still sarcastic, but it is no longer in the harsh and hurtful way that it used to be. I don’t snap at my parents anymore if they say something that hurts my feelings or something that I don’t agree with, I don’t give smart-ass answers and replies to everything, I am contemplative about my answers, and have grown in communicating better with everyone is general. Oh PTL!!!!!!! I am excited about that, more than I led on in the conversation. I said my usual, “Thank you” at the end and smiled inside.
I am almost done memorizing the third chapter of James which means I am 60% of the way through memorizing the whole book! Woot woot. On top of that, I have been memorizing other verses. The reason for all of this brain cramming memorizing that I have been doing is so that throughout the day, I am reminded of verses in different situations and can help myself by going to God’s word before anything else. I am tucking them in my heart to help remind me how to view conversations, situations, etc. and I truly feel like I am seeing that more and more.
I went to a missionary couples house a few days ago to talk to them about the ministry that they do in Cambodia, to swim, and to just hang out with people that love the Lord. They talked about the Holy Spirit and all that it does in and through people so easily, like it was just normal to see healings on a day to day basis. After we were done swimming on their rooftop pool, they invited us back down to their apartment and fed us sugar-coated donuts (I was very happy during this time) and to pray over us individually. When it came to be my turn, they prayed for me and spoke over my life saying that, “That the Lord would radically move in and through my life and I would see radical movement in my relationship and reliance on the Lord.” I felt peaceful in that moment, and thought it amazing that they would speak the work “radical” over me as I am the team leader of Radical Pursuit. God is good.
I am involved in a new and different ministry. It is called Unsung Heroes, and our job is to seek and find new contacts for AIM to partner with for future ministry together. It is different, it is hard, it is slow-moving and then the next day fast-moving, but I am grateful for this time and blessed that I have this group of women to surround and support me. I am looking forward to what is ahead for me, for my team, and for the ministry that we are and will be working with.
That is all for now. Much love from Phnom Penh.
