Almost Home.......

Wow.  What a summer.  And I cannot wait to come home.  I am finally ready to be back and to figure out what this new step I am about to take looks like.  I am genuinely excited to see where God is going to use me and to be surprised at where that may take me.

I have a passion to help hurting kids.  I love seeing victory come through the most dire of circumstances and ultimately for them to finally see how much God loves them.  To see their eyes sparkle as they talk about Jesus and all of the great questions that come with a new walk with Him.

I am in the business of helping kids see Jesus in such an awesome and powerful way that they are never the same.  Not through anything I do, but through what God does through me.  I am His willing vessel.  I want to do this for the rest of my life and I say that with 100% certainty.  And not just kids, but I love to see young adults find their full potential.  When a young person sees their life the way that God does, it is extraordinary.

I want to be in full-time ministry.  More specifically, full-time ministry helping kids who need someone in their life as a mentor or in an after school program.  Something that requires all of me and not just the parts that I let God have now and then.

I want Him to have it all.  I just want to be along for the ride.

So this will change me.  And it will probably eventually change my employment.  And it will probably change my whole life in some fascinating and maybe some difficult ways, but more so this summer than any other I felt God's call to help His children.  To be there for them.  How that is going to look, I don't know.  Where that happens is another big question mark.  However, I have never been more ready for anything in my life than I have been for this these past few weeks.  Being at camp has been such a confirmation of that.  Not just from this year, but also last year.  Looking back at the events of last summer I now see a plan and a purpose.

It is exciting. :)

So, yeah.   Home I go next Wednesday to rejoin my regularly scheduled life and begin to sort through and process what this new direction is going to look like.  I am open to all possibilities. I look forward to catching up with friends and seeing how those relationship will grow and change.  I look forward to rejoining Joppa and getting reacquainted with friends there.  I look forward to getting back into the swing of helping plan YATEC and beginning another school year.  But mostly, I look forward to seeing what God has on the horizon.  Friends, it is going to be an interesting year. God bless.