Standing in Awe

As promised, a post just for the El Salvador trip.  I was in La Libertad, El Salvador last week, and many of you helped to make that possible.  I owe you the deepest thanks, and sincerely hope that this letter encourages you.  If you have read any of my older blog posts, or even just talked to me, you may know that I absolutely love the sunrise.  I find them so renewing and love the promise of a new day.  The picture above is just that: a promise of a new day, and particularly special because it was in La Libertad, a place so near to my heart.  I woke early each morning to exercise on the beach as well as just sit and take in the first warm rays of the morning.  I meditated a lot on God's power and his ability to make everything new as I watched each wave washing up onto the shore. This past week was so good for my life and for my spirit.  I was able to reconnect with many of my friends there that I have grown close to over the past 4 years a...

I know I talked in a previous post about graduating and things changing, but I would like to explain a bit more about where I am at in life right now and what God is doing.  Praise to God, I was accepted to go on staff with Great Commission Ministries at New Life Church, and at the start of February I headed down to Orlando for new staff training.  I learned all about how to share with others about the ministry I am involved in and how they can be involved.  I have since been working full time doing Ministry Team Development (MTD) and have also done a bit of traveling. Not really work related, I had the opportunity to travel to Arizona in mid February as well to run the Ragnar relay with my sister and her family.  We ran 202 miles in 30 hours.  It was a lot of fun and great sibling bonding.  Even though running through the desert is probably not my favorite thing to do, spending time with people is.  In a way I think God used the trip to show me how...

I realize that it has been many months since I have last posted.  I think what I found is that my life back home is not anything I thought anyone would care to read.  Then I realized that God does absolutely amazing things regardless of where I am and what I am doing at the current moment in my life.  A lot of big things have happened since I last posted: I got to witness my big sister cross the finish line of her first marathon, I became an aunt to a set of beautiful twins, I graduated from college, and the whole family was in the same place for the first time in two years.  It has been a lot of accomplishments and endings, but as the title suggests, rather than feeling like the beginning of the end, it has all felt like the end of a beginning. When I returned to Ann Arbor at the beginning of the month I assumed it would feel weird to walk around campus and not be going to classes.  I was weirdly surprised that it did not feel strange or out of place at all....