Wherever you are...
"Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner pointing ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present because here- time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive." - Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts
The past few weeks have been a slower pace after the team has been gone, but this has not meant a shortage of the Lord working in my life. I have had the opportunity to go to several different workshops and conferences that have been helping me figure out who I am and what I am about. As I wrote earlier this summer, who you are is not what you do. For some reason, I have had a hard time letting this stick. However, after getting to attend a workshop about figuring out my strengths and meeting with my friend Marcy to talk about my dreams and callings. I think it's starting to get through my head. I am to BE who God has called me to BE. The doing part of that may look different in each phase of my life. I have been uniquely designed to demonstrate a part of God's character to the world in a way that only I can. This very realization has been calling me to live in the present. To seek opportunities to be and to live in a very present way. I feel a calling towards living out hospitality and compassion. I want to be a place people can come to where they feel welcomed, valued, important, and understood. I don't want to get caught up in worries of the future. I don't want to regret the mistakes I've made and allow lies to stop me from being who I am made to be. I want to soak in every last drop of today and be enveloped in the Holy Spirit's prompting, ready to do his will.
So as I study spanish, as I get groceries, as I interact with school children and teenagers, as I go to church, as I spend time with friends, as I study the Bible, as I plan lessons, how am I reflecting God to the people I work with? How are these things helping me better be who God has asked me to be? I'm finding that I feel more fulfilled and more filled with joy when I put myself in this place, ready to receive what God has for me today. Each one of you who support me provide the world with something unique too. I see it and I am grateful that the world isn't full of people just like me, because not much would get accomplished. So ask God, who have you created me to be? How do you want to show yourself to the world through me? Then receive how he can do that through you in this very present time. I pray that you are blessed through this and know how grateful I am for the support you have giving me. The Lord is working through you and me as we work together to impact people in Honduras.
A few prayer requests:
- Pray for wisdom in planning for the new Honduran school year which will begin in February as I will be writing a new Bible curriculum for an elementary school.
- Pray for Spiritual Emphasis Week in the Elementary at IST on November 17-21, I will be speaking to the students on the fruit of the Spirit
- Continue praying for a car, we have found a few leads, but we need something that is affordable, automatic, good on gas, and not falling apart. =)
- Pray that I would continue to find these opportunities to live in the present
The past few weeks have been a slower pace after the team has been gone, but this has not meant a shortage of the Lord working in my life. I have had the opportunity to go to several different workshops and conferences that have been helping me figure out who I am and what I am about. As I wrote earlier this summer, who you are is not what you do. For some reason, I have had a hard time letting this stick. However, after getting to attend a workshop about figuring out my strengths and meeting with my friend Marcy to talk about my dreams and callings. I think it's starting to get through my head. I am to BE who God has called me to BE. The doing part of that may look different in each phase of my life. I have been uniquely designed to demonstrate a part of God's character to the world in a way that only I can. This very realization has been calling me to live in the present. To seek opportunities to be and to live in a very present way. I feel a calling towards living out hospitality and compassion. I want to be a place people can come to where they feel welcomed, valued, important, and understood. I don't want to get caught up in worries of the future. I don't want to regret the mistakes I've made and allow lies to stop me from being who I am made to be. I want to soak in every last drop of today and be enveloped in the Holy Spirit's prompting, ready to do his will.
So as I study spanish, as I get groceries, as I interact with school children and teenagers, as I go to church, as I spend time with friends, as I study the Bible, as I plan lessons, how am I reflecting God to the people I work with? How are these things helping me better be who God has asked me to be? I'm finding that I feel more fulfilled and more filled with joy when I put myself in this place, ready to receive what God has for me today. Each one of you who support me provide the world with something unique too. I see it and I am grateful that the world isn't full of people just like me, because not much would get accomplished. So ask God, who have you created me to be? How do you want to show yourself to the world through me? Then receive how he can do that through you in this very present time. I pray that you are blessed through this and know how grateful I am for the support you have giving me. The Lord is working through you and me as we work together to impact people in Honduras.
A few prayer requests:
- Pray for wisdom in planning for the new Honduran school year which will begin in February as I will be writing a new Bible curriculum for an elementary school.
- Pray for Spiritual Emphasis Week in the Elementary at IST on November 17-21, I will be speaking to the students on the fruit of the Spirit
- Continue praying for a car, we have found a few leads, but we need something that is affordable, automatic, good on gas, and not falling apart. =)
- Pray that I would continue to find these opportunities to live in the present
sounds like some great opportunities with the spiritual emphasis week and writing the Bible curriculum!
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