reconnect..

so its been a while since i have written, but it honestly seems like just yesterday. these past few months have been crazy. and i could write about so many things, but i want to bring it back to God and what he has been teaching me...

this last week i found out my regional placement for youthworks. the regional placement is where i will be training and tell me what part of the country i will be in. the sites are minneapolis, phildelphia, birmingham, or denver. well this year i am training in minneapolis, which means that i will be in the mid states region. i first i was crazy bummed and down about it. i could only think about how it meant that i wasn't going to be going far away and how that wasnt what i wanted. i wasnt going to get on a plane and go somewhere new. i could only think about i, and how selfish is that?

well after being down for a day or two my heart started to change. i was at a worship service last night and we were singing the desert song by hillsong and the bridge of that song goes like this:

all of my life
in every season
you are still God
and i have a reason to sing
i have a reason to worship

this hit me. God is God and he has a plan for me life. How often do we say or sing the words here is my life take it and do with it what YOU WILL, not i, but YOU. and here i am being bummed about training in minneapolis, but God is taking me where he wants me! i know that he has ordained big plans for my life and that he will use it.

so i am learning that when i say use me and take my life and do with it what you will i need to be completely ok with whatever that looks like, even if it means it is in my own back yard. so i am so ready for another summer and for youthworks. i am so excited to find out who my team is and where i will be serving! here are two of the stellars teams that i have had the last two summers and i know that God will provide radical people to change my life this summer as well!