God is stripping away everything that I put my identity in: work, friends, church. I don’t have them anymore, not how they used to be. He is showing me that my identity must be in Him. Will you follow a God who doesn’t meet your expectations? I will follow. For better or worse. And it’s easy to say that now when I feel like it, but what about later when I don’t feel like it, when I’m overwhelmed by the …
In the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time contemplating the difference between sacrifice and mercy. This past fall when I was living in Spokane, I decided to cut back my hours at work so that I could volunteer for 10-11 hours a week at Christ Kitchen, a non-profit business that employs women living in poverty. I have also continued to be involved with En Christo, a student-led group that makes and passes out lunches to the residents …
I found out that my new home next year will be in Chicago the day before I left Spokane to move to Yakima begin at internship at Sunrise Outreach Center, a homeless ministry. It was a day of many good-byes and a time of feeling completely overwhelmed by the love and support from all my friends in Spokane. Then moving day came, and I packed up all my stuff and stepped into the next season of my life. I’ve been …
I graduated from Whitworth University last spring with a degree in Peace Studies. Peace Studies at Whitworth is rooted in a Biblical understanding of the word “peace.” In Hebrew, the word for peace is shalom and it encompasses so much more than our word “peace.” It means “universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight: the webbing together of God, humans, and all creation in justice and fulfillment” (from Not The Way It’s Supposed To Be: A Breviary of Sin by Cornelius Plantinga). …
