Just Felt Like Writing Today...

Normally I post about what we are up to while itinerating but today I just felt like writing. Itineration has a lot to do with traveling, raising awareness/support, calling pastors, ect... However, it is also a great time to grow spiritually. For me that has been the best part of this experience.

A pastor's daughter I was blessed to grow up in church and was saved at a young age. Though saved for some time I still find Christ grace ever growing, and my relationship deepening. That is why today I simply write. To let you see a different side of itineration one you may not of seen before. So I will now open what may seem my random door of deep thought and invite you to be encouraged that God's mercy and truth are always new each and everyday.

C.S. Lewis by far one of my favorite authors testimony goes like this, though raised in a Christian home he became and atheist at a young age and stayed that way until he was in his thirties. He described himself "a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance to escape." He says "you must picture me in my room night after night, feeling whenever my mind lifted even a second from my work, the steady unrelenting approach from Him who I so earnestly desired not to meet....it was then I gave in and admitted God was God." This man who came to Christ kicking and screaming so to speak is now remembered for having some of the most poignant and thought provoking books on Christianity.

You may ask the point of this story and what it has to do with itineration. On this journey I have been reminded that I am a person of "whys."I ask a lot of questions about pretty much everything and have the tendency to complicate things. In all honesty I have to quite frequently just stop and remember to "Be Still and Know that He is God" Today I want to remind you to do the same. Humankind is always searching for answers, and deep down we all know why. The simple answer we have a God shaped hole in all of us only He can fill.

Wherever you are be reminded in this moment that the only truth that matters is "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life."(John 3:16) That is the one truth that will change the world. Its the reason why we are raising funds to go to Kenya, everyone should have the chance to come to Him. Finally, it is the reason God is not done with you! If you wake another day or take another breath He has something for you. He might just be waiting for you to throw up your hands, or open up you broken heart and simply admit that He is God...


(Bio information and Lewis quotes from http://www.biographyonline.net/writers/cs-lewis.html)