Breathless

For the most part I'm still blown away by the chance I have to serve as an intern here at Willow Creek. I still remember how I felt when I got that first phone call from Ashley offering me the position. Breathless. God took my breath away with this blessing. I guess I'm still breathless when I think about it...completely humbled and wondering what God is doing in my life. I'm not sure I deserve all of this.

I'm still gaining my bearings around the church...learning where things are, figuring out the normal week to week administrative tasks I'll be doing, and learning everyone's names. I'm thrilled to be a part of the family like environment here and can't wait to get to know everyone better.

One of the goals for the end of this internship has become very clear to me this past week. Not only will I hopefully get to know the Promiseland team better, but I'll get to know who I am better as well. I'll gain confidence in leading out of my strengths and in who God has made me. It's going to be a tough process, but I just pray that by the end of these 3 months I will know how lead myself and through that will become a better leader, too.

One last thing before I go to bed. Though I'm still a little breathless by the chance to come here for the summer, God has presented another amazing opportunity. I've been offered the chance to submit an article for Christianity Today. It shouldn't be too hard to connect the dots between all the busyness and confusion that goes on during the week to how it all comes together and makes sense on the weekends...after all the kids are the purpose of everything going on and seeing them have a forever friendship with Jesus. I get to write an article about what I'm passionate about...how cool is that?

Erin has described these amazing opportunities as being flipped. She said that life can be going along as normal and then all of a sudden God just sort of flips you with something totally unexpected. What an awesome God!

I can't wait to see what I'll be learning next so stay tuned for more...(and next week I'll put up some pictures too)