"Your Story Starts Here..."

"So... What's your story?" 

If you've spent any amount of quality time at a coffee shop with me, you will hear those words come from my mouth. I have always been intrigued with people's life stories. I love hearing where people came from, what they've done, how they've become who they are. 

I believe our God is a God of stories; He always has been. He has been writing stories since before Adam and Eve, throughout the time of Moses and the Israelites, during the time when Jesus was on earth, and He is still writing them today. It is through these stories that God's presence is seen and His character realized. 

A few months back I started to recognize, despite all of the "God-stories" I had heard and believed to be true, I still had not been trusting God to be the author of my own life story. At some point I had decided I was a better author and knew what was best for my life. I was writing a story with my life, but it wasn't a very good one. Around the same time, my dear friend Nicole (most likely by some prompting of the Holy Spirit) decided to buy me the most beautiful journal for my birthday. And without her knowing all these thoughts about stories that had been bombarding my mind, she just so happened to write on the very first page of this journal, "Your story starts here."

It was a fresh start. An extension of grace. An invitation to enter in to a meaningful story God had been offering me all along. And I decided to take it. 

And apparently this story is taking me all the way to India. 

I am asking for those who know me to step in to this story as well. I’m sooooo not a blogger (or even a journaler really), but I am going to do my best to document my thoughts and experiences throughout this adventure, because what is the point of a story if it is not being told? I just ask that whenever you think of me or read these blurbs, please take a little extra time to pray for me. I believe in the power of prayer and the strength, comfort, and change prayer brings. And let me tell you, for this adventure I’m gonna need all the help that I can get.

Side Note: If you ever are praying for me and this trip, and you feel as if God is giving you something that could encourage me or the team that I am going with, please pray into your feeling, trust that God speaks to you, and let me know what He has to say!!