I want to be so many things—patient being one of them. Funny thing, though: with everything else I want to be, it’s hard to be patient. I want to be a wife and a mother. I want to be a servant of Christ working tangibly on behalf of and with/ alongside the poor. I want to be a writer and an “ordinary radical” who, with God’s Spirit and fire inside of me, inspires others to love. And as I wait …
God is so good. I totaled my car—my first car ever, my 1991 Volvo 240 Sedan—on Wednesday. On my way to work I reached for my purse, which I had hung around the passenger’s side headrest, because I wanted to get out my tracfone to see what time it was (i.e. how late I was to work) when my phone received signal a few miles down the road. My purse strap slipped in between the headrest and the door, so …
So although I have yet to officially begin Mission Year (start date: August 27…Woohoo!!), I figure that some of the family members/ friends/ professors who have received my Mission Year launch announcement may already want to check up on my blog and see what’s going on in my head and heart. And I figure that before I start the program I should let people know a little bit about what has brought me to this point and what sort of …
So here I am getting geared up for Mission Year in August… I don’t feel quite worthy of a blog space yet, but why not let you adventure with me through my transition? So, here goes… My name is Breanna, and I am a recent graduate from Lee University in Cleveland, TN. My major was in intercultural studies with an emphasis in urban missiology and a minor in Spanish. (Translation: Christian mission work, inner-city focus, and some Spanish language studies, …
