Free the FOOL...

wonder: the emotion aroused by something awe-inspiring, astounding, or marvelous.

Recently, I have been completely filled with wonder of God. It seems as my soul could just explode over who God is. God has repeatedly showed me this week the insane ways that He has worked in my life over the past four years. Things that I wrote off years ago, I am now seeing as divine intervention by a King. I cannot get over how perfect God's plan is. He led me to a Bible college and placed me in a degree which I have hated since the beginning... even before I got here. How crazy though, that God knew exactly what He was doing? Only now am I beginning to realize the way God was in it ALL! Through being at Johnson, God has turned my world upside down. He has broken down walls in my heart that I didn't know existed. He chased away my fear of "missions," replacing it with a passion for other cultures. He placed me on the same hall as a beautiful daughter of His... Miss Erin Titus :) He worked through our friendship in ways we can't even describe. He placed Miss Stefanie Bullerdick in our lives through a random encounter with a random person that none of us know. He placed a church in my lap that seeks to love people the way Jesus does. He put a desire in my heart to spend the summer in a different country... and divinely orchestrated a conversation with Tom and Paula.. the directors of the mission organization to the Dominican Republic. He placed me in the Dominican, where I knew no one and really didn't know what I would even be doing. He placed girls there that summer that changed my life forever. HE worked through our relationships... providing ways to grow in completely different states. He placed a love for the Dominican people in my heart that will never leave. He put two girls in my life that have changed the way I view my Savior... Miss Katie Stevens and Miss Stephanie Hastings :) He brought me back to the Dominican the next winter when I should have been in school and I fell even more in love with it. Then He brought me back to the Dominican for a third time... when I really wanted to go to Africa. This past summer changed my life. Through divinely orchestrated conversations and interactions with people, both here and in the DR, God has turned my world upside down. My vision is Jesus. I long to be like my Savior. I want to be humbled and broken before Him. I want my life to be His. I desire to be fully surrendered to Him. I want every moment to be spent seeking the Lord and loving His people. I am in awestruck wonder at a God who loves a sinner like me. I just can't get over who He is and the way He works... love it. I just want to free the fool... the fool for Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:13-15
If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind it is for you. For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.