Jump: Dream Big

One years summer camp was titled JUMP. I've been thinking about what I got out of that camp.I learned that I have to dream big and jump out of my comfort zone. I'm not settling on any little thing that I can accomplish. I am setting out for a huge dream that only God can accomplish and get done. How boring would life be if we did things only by our own power? God is so incredibly able to do much more than we can imagine! I have big dreams. Dreams of what and where God will use me in Kenya and not what I can do there but what he can do through me and how he can use me.

I spent a while reading a blog today that inspired me and made me think. This 21 year from TN simply amazed me. She is the adoptive mother of 14 girls and living in Uganda. I feel like people want to put me on hold because of my age. This girl changed my thinking and made me dream big again. Click here to read her blog.

I'm only 18. I know God has big plans for me if I allow him to take over my life. I'm so ready and willing for him to use me wherever he wants me to go. I'd leave tomorrow if he asked me to. I'm ready to jump. Now..this year..might now be the right time. God has perfect timing and it is not my timing. If I could I would hop on a plane and fly to kenya and live there tonight. But I think that God has other plans for me this year. I dont think he's done with me here yet. He will use me where I am. I'm in such amazement that God would place this incredible dream in my life and allow me to be used by him. He chose me. He will not throw me away.[Isaiah 41:9]

I can't even imagine what heaven will be like. If this life is only a very small piece, then eternity is forever. That sounds rediculous. Of course eternity is forever, but I dont think anyone can actually understand forever. Forever means without ever ending. Everything in this life has an ending. I can't imagine what life with no ending is. I'm so excited and curious about how heaven will be. I will get to worship the king 24/7...the one who created the earth! How amazing. No pain and no suffering. That's impossible for me to imagine. Everything I can think of either has pain or suffering.

So I'm ready to go. I'm praying that God will prepare me in this next year to be used by him. To be sent out and do his work. I pray that God leads me to where he wants me. I have no idea what this next year holds. Cosmetology school is a possiblity. Short term mission trips are a possibility. I will just listen and follow.

"I will come to you and fulfill my gracious PROMISE to bring you back to this place. For I KNOW the PLANS I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to PROSPER you and NOT to harm you, plans to give you a HOPE and a FUTURE. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will LISTEN to you. You will SEEK me and FIND me when you SEEK me with ALL your heart. I WILL be found by you, declares the Lord." Jeremiah 29:10-14