Became a "grown up"
Set out on this adventure called life.
Here's what I've learned since the moment I walked across the Boardman High School gymnasium and changed over my tassel. In a nutshell of course.
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Sometimes you go somewhere and discover what you were made for...
Sometimes it takes losing things-the most precious things-the things you think you can't live without-to show you what really matters and what you're really made of. To take you to the core of you...
Some places show you who you are...
Other places show you who you're not....
Wherever you go.
Whatever you gain or lose along the way.
Whatever you discover about yourself in the process.
It's always the people that remain and that matter most.
The things they do in your heart that cannot be undone.
The way you can no longer imagine life before they were in it.
Those people.
And your faith.
Life is a crazy ride.
An adventure if you'll let it be.
It's twisty and turny and predictably unpredictable.
Locations and situations change. Miles and borders and even death come between.
People come and go I suppose.
The marks they make in our hearts and our lives and the faith that we cling to when all else seems lost-broken-hopless.
Those are the makings of one crazy beautiful story called life.
Just a little look at what I've done with my first decade as a grown up...
Moved my life to Missouri. I promise I didn't even know where it was on the map. Best decision I've ever made. Discovered my passion and my calling and decided to pursue those and Jesus above all else. Walked away with some of my very best, lifelong friends. Traveled with them by my side and survived some of the most difficult, most heart breaking events in my life while they held me up.
Made my way to Africa and just knew <3
Spent a summer in Chicago figuring out how to be alone with myself and really love it. Of course with these lovely people to help me when the learning wasn't fun.
Ventured out on my own to the furthest corner of the country.
Rented my first place.
Planted a church.
Became a nanny.
Collected family from coast to coast.
Adopted a puppy and made him my best friend.
Found where my heart had been all along.
Obeyed despite not understanding and moved my life to Guadalajara, Mexico to become a teacher. Discovered I am indeed not a teacher and I certainly do not enjoy living in eternal summer. But here I also found my pastoral heart and my insane love for teenagers. That mango in just the right moment is magical and that I really can sort of speak Spanish. That kids make me crazy but there is absolutely nothing else I could ever do with my life. And where I was reminded that God gives you exactly what and who you need in each and every season <3
Here's to the many more chapters in my story.
To another decade of adventure and heart change and the fiercest faith.
(And for the record, it was impossible to include every single beautiful human that God has used in my life along the way. This is just a very small sampling of the endless amount of people that I have been blessed enough to journey with.)
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