This post catches me on the last real night of Spring Break 2011. I spent the past seven days in Sunnyvale, TX catching up with old friends, exploring new places, and gathering much, much needed sleep. The past three days have simply been a dream here in Texas. The sun has finally started to warm the rich dirt and provide the perfect atmosphere to be outside. I even saw bluebonnets already blooming on Highway 45 driving from Dallas to College Station today!
I love spring. It's gorgeous and new every year. It never fails; it always comes.
As much as I could ramble on for sentences and sentences about how dearly I love this season and all the glorious ways I participate in it.. I need to actually talk about why I'm going through this whole shindig (blogging) again.
This summer my toes will be emerged in the dusty red earth of the Grand Canyon.
Through GoNow Missions, I have been appointed to serve as a NAMB (North American Mission Board) Innovator. As an Innovator, I'll be holding a secular job in a store located on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park, the General Store. The purpose of this job is to work alongside the lost, build relationships with co-workers and share Jesus with them. I simply can't wait to explore the Canyon with them! But, I am scared out of my mind.
I actually enjoy working retail and I would kinda really enjoy working in a small outdoor recreation retail store where I could also serve as an outdoors guide of some outdoorsy discipline. Figuring out how a store works and dealing with customers (happy or unhappy) is just kinda fun! Working at Once Upon A Child on and off the past four years definitely has made an impression on me. It also revealed how utterly terrible I am at being bold, speaking Truth while working, and trying to find something in common with my co-workers. For those reasons.. this summer scares me. Not to mention the massive hole in the ground plus my acute fear of heights.
The road to this summer has so far been... well, rocky and foggy. It took a long time (in my opinion) to gain clarity from the Lord as to where I needed to be. It involved giving up what seemed to be the perfect internship (seriously, it was perfect in my humanity driven definition of perfection). It required prayer upon prayer and trusting wholeheartedly in the Lord--in His timing and in His plan, both completely perfect in His God-defined meaning of perfection. I wish I could say that I anticipate this road becoming a little less boulder-like and a little more crystal clear, but I can't. While still walking on this ground beneath, my hope does not lie there, but on the one that is unseen and most assuredly coming!
So here we go again.
Me, as witty as possible, telling His stories.
And you, so patiently listening. :)
