I feel like this experience is one of the best things I've ever done. By serving Christ in almost every way possible I have learned the truth behind what it means to truly live life.
I have also learned many life and people skills and gotten good taste of reality when faced with a non stop busy schedule and no choice but to give all you got to your work and watch out for your kids and this and that and still find time for yourself in there somewhere and time away with your own group of friends and also time just to stay on a healthy eating/exercise schedule when on the go all the time. I love it though!I found myself before getting here just wishing my life away and constantly saying "I'm just ready to be out of college and have a family already" and not taking life d a y by d a y. I might have had my days where I did better than others but, as a whole I again, like in high school, found myself awaiting the future to really "make things better." Like my life would only really start when that happened... wrong.
But, this experience has showed me that right now is a gift and it has taught me how to take every day for what it is and make the best of it and not to worry about tomorrow or things out of my hands. A lesson I greatly needed to learn, I'd say. I realize now that the real world isn't as easy and as glamorous as it looks from the outside but, it is true that it consists of bigger blessings they just don't come easy. It's showed me that this is the time of my life where I'm able to do things like go away for the summer to Brandon, Mississippi and intern and travel. I know that when God is ready for the next chapter of my life to begin it will come by His hand not by me trying to push my life to go by too soon.
I found a song that pretty much described everything I've been really learning lately and thought I'd share parts of it with you.
To know you is to never worry for my life &
To know you is to never give in or compromise
To know you is to want to tell the world about you
Cause I can't live without you
To know you is to hear your voice when you are calling
To know you is to catch my brother when he is falling
To know you is to feel the pain of the broken hearted
Cause they can't live without you
To know you is to ache for more than ordinary
To know you is to look beyond the temporary
To know you is believing that you will be enough
Cause there is no life without you
All this life could offer me, could not compare to you
And I count it all as lost, compared to knowing you
MORE than my next breath
MORE than life or death
All reaching for, I live my life to know you more
I leave it all behind, you are all that satisfies
To know you is to want to know you more
"To know you by Casting Crowns"
What I'm doing: Next week we're going to Orange Beach, Alabama with the high school for student life at the beach so I ask that you be praying for God to move in all the lives of the 83 students we are taking! I know it's going to be a blast and an awesome experience! This week I was lucky enough to get a visit from my mom for a few days and got to see my little brother, who I'm sooo proud of, before he went to beach camp himself! I hope God did great things in his life and I'm thankful for getting to see them this week! As I go on to week 5 of my time here in Brandon I just thank you all for your prayers and ask you to continue to pray for patience, strength, discernment, leadership, etc. that we can pour out into these students and for God to be moving in their hearts!"In their hearts human beings plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps." Proverbs 16:9
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Song: Come as you are by Pocket full of rocks
