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Restless

"This task before me may seem unclear...but it, my Master holds" ~ Bebo Norman Lately I've been feeling restless. I'm thinking it might be time to move on, to move onto something new and different. Something exciting. Something big. This is not where I expected my life to end up. Please don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE my job as a nanny watching Ryan and I LOVE my job with the kids at church. I truly believe God led me to these jobs as part of His will. However, there is a chance I could be out of a job in the coming weeks or months and along with other reasons, I'm wondering if God has something else in store for me. If you had asked me in college what I saw myself doing 15 years from then, I would have listed many possibilities - working with orphans in India...rocking thrown away babies with AIDS in Africa...speaking publically about God's work in me through the abuse in my past...ministering to women who had been rescued from sex trafficking

Friends For Real

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This girl...THIS GIRL. Cassey and I are going on 13 years of friendship - 13!! We met when we were in our first years of college, free from responsibility and high on life and faith in Jesus. We were assigned as summer missionaries in Riverton, at different churches, with guy partners. We bonded that summer and became fast friends. Deep friends. Friends that laid on the living room floor late at night in the house where I was staying, telling each other things we had never told anyone before. Friends that hid under path bridge at camp during the Counselor Hunt laughing so hard, I'm pretty sure I peed my pants. Friends that promised to do mission work together the next summer and planned out where we would go and what we would do. Friends that bawled when the summer was over and we parted ways. Real friends. Then life happened, or got in the way, and we found ourselves walking down different paths. Angry and hurtful words caused months and years of not talking and I thought, &