On the Road Again

So I started this blog to get everybody up to speed and help everyone keep up with all the craziness to come :) As I think about where to start, it takes me back to when I use to walk ten miles in the snow uphill to get to....just kidding! Actually it started in high school and then hit warp speed after my first trip with Food for the Hungry. I'd gone to visit my sponsor child, Denis Chemusto. When I chose to become friends with Denis at Rock the Desert, I'm not sure I realized what a life-altering decision I had made. I've felt called to do mission work ever since my youth pastor took me, my family, and all my friends on some trips that were, to say the least, unforgettable. Sleeping on the floor on a Navajo reservation, traveling for almost ten days straight across the entire U.S. south, spending the night in dumpsters (yeah that one's not even exaggerating!)...these are just a glimpse at the events that essentially made me into who I am. Not to mention all the family camping trips and visits to the ranch, you could definitely say God made me to do something like this. But I'm not sure I was fully convinced of it until my most recent trip to Haiti.

With a potential office job in the works, I headed to Haiti hoping with every ounce of my being that God would come up with something in "the field". I'd decided at the beginning of my last college semester to take a year off after graduation. To do what, I wasn't sure; I just knew God was telling me to wait. Wait. Doesn't that usually involve patience? Not my strongest quality :) But I put all my faith in the hope that God would do what He promised-that He knows the good plans He has for me (Jer 29:11) and to finish the good works He'd started (Phil 1:6). 

The next few blogs will describe what happened during my time leading up to Haiti, during Haiti, and after my return. They're post-dated, obviously, but they're coming from my (abriged) journal entries, so they're accurate. I didn't really realize how important the events leading up to now were until I tried to explain to everyone why I was making such a big move. So this is my small attempt to explain the overwhelming God works that have taken over my life lately :)