Hi all! Thanks so much for visiting my blog and for joining in on this journey with me! I’m Tiffany (for those who may not know me already…hopefully, you will get to know me real quick through this blog!) … I am just an imperfect chica who has come to fall in love with the amazing and undeserved grace that our loving Lord freely gives.
I gave my life to the Lord at the age of 17, just as I was starting college–those are some crazy years just in case you aren’t aware. Through the next few years, the Lord confirmed in me a lot of passions and desires He had rooted inside me from a young age: to help people….all people…every kind of person that He created, and a heart for international missions! He led me to Isaiah 61 soon after I switched my major for the last time (maybe the tenth time, but who’s counting?!)—> to social work! woohoo! By His grace, I now have my Master’s in Clinical Social Work, am fluent in the Spanish language, and am totally in love with children! I am also one of the weird ones who is sort of scared of comfort….seriously. It makes me anxious. I thrive when I am outside of my comfort zone.
In August of 2013, I had a “cushy” job, well, by the world’s standards I suppose…..I was a social work supervisor for a mental health agency. I left said cushy job to follow the Lord’s leading to live my life, or the next portion of my life, in Haiti. Dive face first into a new culture, new faces, new places, new customs, new experiences….sure! Why not?! Enter: leaving my comfort zone. And so I did. I have lived here for the past year and a half. Recently though, I have had that tug….you know, the tug?!….the tug that tells me that there’s more out there….the tug that begs of me to give more of myself to the Lord and His will for my life, the tug that signifies change is coming, the tug that reminds me of the holy discontentment I will have until I reach my heavenly home….the tug that leaves me no choice but to hold my arms and hands open wide to the Lord, saying, “Send ME!”…..when I initially said this, I had no idea what that would mean. I have lived in Haiti for the past while, loved on lil ones every day, and gotten out of my comfort zone, hadn’t I?! I’ve left my “home” and all that I knew…wasn’t that “enough?”…..well, it turns out that my plans pale in comparison to The Lord’s, which is such an amazing thing!…
Speaking of “home”….I’ve been realizing that this concept is pretty much a man made one. By that I mean that I haven’t felt “at home” in a very long time….even traveling back to the States, to my home culture, where we’re supposed to be able to let our guards down, go to familiar places, see familiar faces, and feel “at home”……well, some of that happens. While living here in Haiti, other people’s lives go on, too…they learn and grow right along with me, only now we’re in separate places. Weird. Hard. Feelings of missing people constantly. Wondering what others are doing. Learning how to make this my new home…except it’s not. And neither is where I came from. Enter: the holy discontentment that I was recently reminded of…y’all it’s real! Our one true home isn’t here anyway, it’s in heaven…..and until we get there, I guess I just need to get used to new normals. Every. Single Day. Whew!
So, back to those other plans….yeah those plans that I tried not to make (I thought I gave up on having my life planned out a long time ago, by the way!)…. Well, The Lord threw a big wrench into them (SO thankful for those wrenches!). When I surrendered my ideas to the Lord of what I thought I’d be doing next, little did I know what He’d ask me to say “Yes” to…Enter: The World Race, launching September 2015! I will be traveling to Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua…spending a month in each place….. sharing the gospel, loving on kiddos, teaching, preaching (maybe?!), church planting, and yep…loving people right where they’re at. And I am so unbelievably excited!! … in awe of the Lord’s faithfulness and perfect timing!
I am excited to share with you all about this next journey…the joys and victories, the struggles and challenges, and how the Lord’s faithfulness prevails! I pray that as the Lord guides me to write and share, that it will bless you greatly!
