Author: Adventures

There are times when the Lord really tests you. When he says “give me this, so I can grow you better. So that our relationship will strengthen.   And this week was one of those times. God told me that to deepen our relationship, I was going to have to lay some people at his feet. To give them less of a priority. To give him the first place of my heart.   And I was really scared to do it. The ones he asked me to lay down were those closest to my heart; ones I went to in times of trouble. He kept telling me that He needed to be my all; that He alone could get me through any...

(All of this happened last week, so bear with me) There have been lots of different things occuring in the last week. Teaching classes and giving service messages, evangelizing to homeless men and playing with kids in Bethel. But through it all, one thing in particular has remained constant. And that is water.   After a church service, we got to swim in a pool in the middle of the jungle. During a group sleepover, we got into a water fight. After giving a service, we drove and sang in a rainstorm. And at the end of the week, we played in the ocean and watched the sunset on the...

In the future I will show hospitality to others. I can’t do it now. I still live with my parents. The house I live in isn’t super nice. My couch isn’t even that comfortable. Being hospitable is for people with extra money and lots of extra space in their houses. People with “guest rooms.” Before this past weekend I believed this to be true, but my view of hospitality has been changed. And it wasn’t changed by a little old lady. It wasn’t changed by an adult at all. The person who showed me true hospitality was a 14 year old girl. This story begins...