1 month left!!!!!!!

Yikes how time is flying by as I sit back and watch. Where is it going? How is it that, schools are starting, people are leaving, and leaves have started turning already? Well, it's August friends and it's that time of year and in one month from today I will be meeting the people I get to spend ten and a half months with, meeting the family I'm going to live with, and having to say goodbye to my family that I have never been away from for more then 13 days!! But looking past these earthly things is something I was reminded of this last weekend. See, our life is about the connection we have with God and his love. It's all about him and how much glory we can bring to his name. The Lord woke me from lost vision syndrome. See, in the crazy life of graduation, trying to get all my application stuff in, reading books and writing papers on them, traveling all over the country, and trying to spend as much time as I can with my family and friends I lost the vision I had for going to Master's Commission. It was suddenly just the thing I was doing and going to in September. I lost the dream that I've had since I was 13 to give up a year of my life for seeking God. But as the speakers at the conference that I was at last weekend spoke about having a constant connection with God that requires us laying down our everything to gain, I saw again why I am leaving my comfortable home to live with strangers. The Lord is calling me to live a life of surrender and lay down me to seek more of Him. I want to be totally sold on Him, lost in obsession for my King and the only way I can have that relationship is by laying down me to be more in love with Him. Don't think for one minute that this will be easy at all, in fact it is going to be pretty hard but how bad do I really want it? Bad enough to give up a year of my life to follow where He is calling me to be. It's pretty scary to think of all that is going to happen in just the next month but I am sure that it will only bring me closer to Him if my mind is fully focused on Him and off myself.





So this last month as I prepare to leave the only home I have known, as I pack all I am taking with, and say goodbye to people who have been in my life for so long I want my heart to burn for my Lord. I don't want to be caught up in the moments of leaving but be excited for the great adventure that is to come. 31 days is not a lot of time but I am praying for joy, more then I have ever had to move in His will and surrender my life to Him. So if I get to see you before I leave remind me of all the great times we have had and the many more to come because those will forever be in my heart. This is just the beginning of an adventure so great and I hope to keep posting on all the wonderful things God is going to do in this exciting year to come. Remember today how much you are loved by our King and you will be blessed!!!