An introduction is necessary, don't you think?

Hello everyone!

Here we go. I'm not a writer, so if anyone is reading this and can't handle some grammar inconsistencies from time to time I apologize. Thanks to spell checker, grammar issues should be all that pop up.

My profile explains some of who I am and what purpose I have for writing this blog, but I’d like to elaborate a bit.

I mentioned I am a soon to be college grad. I have spent the last 3 years of my life working toward a college degree; hoping that once I stepped off the stage with my diploma a bright future and lucrative career would be waiting for me. As many can attest to- that isn’t quite how it works; but I hold on to my faith in God and his guidance in my life. In 2011 I took Hebrews 11:1 as my life verse: “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”

My life leading up to today has required a great deal of faith in God and his plan for my life. I have never been rich (by today’s standards) but I have been blessed to never really be in need. I have never been popular but I have never been lacking in love. 2 Corinthians 12:9 has become another verse that I cling to in times of weakness: “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”

All of this has led to today. This point in my life where I still have to choose whether to surrender control of my life to God or to go day to day thinking I can do better.  I choose God.

In January 2012 I met up with my friend Glen. We have been friends since the third grade. We have managed to stay close for 13 years… of course going to the same elementary school, middle school, high school, and university certainly helped. Anyway, we met up in January and talked about possibly doing an internship we heard about at school. This internship was an opportunity for students to work with the youth of a church in England. I had wanted to do this internship for a few months by the time we spoke. I found out that Glen had also been considering the same internship for a month before I got a chance to talk to him about it. It still amazes me how God works. God was preparing our hearts before we knew we wanted to do the internship.

And now, after months of paperwork, interviews, waiting, researching, and a little more waiting we are only a few months away from leaving for England. In this time we will be raising money for our stay since the internship is unpaid. In the past I know I would be freaking out because there is so much to do in so little time… but God has blessed me with a sense of calm. He is my rock, and without Him I know I couldn’t do this.

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