Hello again friends!
So after my last post I decided that it's time for a change! If i'm being honest with myself its the very thing I've felt inside myself traveling all along. If you didn't already know, my faith is an enormous part of my life. I define myself first as a child of god, and THEN a traveler, dancer, worker, etc. I feel as though it's time i tie that part of myself into my writing and into this space for all of you. My hope is that you can all identify with a time of deep wandering. A time where you said, Where am I going? Maybe that time is right now, maybe you've been in a season of wandering for some time now. The greatest comfort and hope that I have ever received is the love of Jesus Christ. How can it be that someone loved us so much to come down and meet us as we are and willingly trade his life for our own? I'm not sure, and this undeniable truth puzzles me and excites me every single day. I don't have to put up this front. Jesus sees me as I am--Broken but still destined for greatness. "For God does not call the qualified, he qualifies the called." We can do anything, be anything we want to be with Jesus as our anchor through every storm and calm waters.
Every time I travel to a new place, yes it's exciting and I can't wait to explore. But the first thing that my mind says is "Thank you Jesus." Thank you for creating a big, beautiful world that was destined to be explored. Thank you for allowing me to see it. I find its in those quiet walks through a new city, when you're all alone that God meets you. Why? Because there's no noise. Because you can stand there in the quiet and accept his embrace. Have those intimate conversations. Rejection, Fear, Anxiety, Excitement, Gratuity, Humility.. Everything is out in the open with our father--and there's so much beauty in that. When I first landed in Hamburg, Germany a few months ago, I got that feeling all over again. As I walked from the place I was staying, to the train, to my school, through the park..he was there. In every blooming flower, and every graffiti-stained corner, He made himself known to me. I told him my hopes, my fears, my heartbreak, my tears. He listened, he always does. I want to encourage you as you read the rest of my blog tips and stories, that I am just as lost as you are.I wander the world, capture moments, make stories. But it is only in Jesus that I am found. He didn't want me to stay in my comfort zone, he wants me to step out and chase my deepest dreams. Even if that means taking on an entirely unfamiliar city on my own. No matter what I face I know he's by my side--and yours too.
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