I don't normally like to capitalize every single word like I did in the title of today's blog, but I know a lot of people do so I thought I would try it. I realize its probably not grammatically correct but it does seem to give it some prestige or something. Anywho, it has been an incredibly LONG time since I've written, but A LOT has changed since the last time I wrote, when I was just a baby alum, so I thought I would fill you in.
So let me get started by telling you how it all started. I realize some of you are going to judge me for what I'm about to say, but I stopped caring about that a long time ago. So for those of you that don't know, I'm a pretty big Harry Potter fan, and yes, a lot of people think that is dumb and satanic and whatever, but let me just tell you that God spoke through HP and pretty much changed the course of my life. So say what you will, but sometimes God uses the most unlikely things to get through to us. So anyway, for those of you that don't watch them, basically its a battle between good and evil. At the end of the 5th movie, the good guy (Harry) makes a statement to his friends that says although it seems like there is no hope or no chance of them defeating the bad guy, that they have something he doesn't...something worth fighting for. When I heard this, I was like "man I want something worth fighting for. I wan't to train like Dumbledore's army and get in the action" and then God said something to me, so simple, yet so profound. He said, "You DO have something worth fighting for. Something SO much bigger than any extravagant plot line in some movie." And I realized, yeah I do have something worth fighting for. There are people, myself included, who are believing lies about themselves and believing that the situations they are in is "just the way it is" and "this is how it always will be" and say things like "this is just the way I am." They are just accepting the conditions they are in like depression, eating disorders, addictions, sickness, etc but here is the truth. There is a God who gave His life so you could have a hope and a future. That you can be free from addictions or sin, and the troubles in this life. You don't have to accept it. You can fight back. And I want to fight back, against the lie that I always believed. I want people to know they can be free, and live the amazing life God has for them. So with that passion and desire in my heart, I knew I wanted to be trained on how to fight back. How to fight the lies and to show other people how to fight too. Because we do have something worth fighting for. Everlasting life.
So that brings be to now. In order to get trained and to live the life God has called me to live, I will be leaving in January to attend a discipleship training school in either Chico, California or Los Angeles, California for 12 weeks. Then I will be going to another country for 12 weeks to put into practice what I have learned. This is where God has always been leading me. All the good and the bad in my life has led me to this point. But I'm ready to take the next step. I definitely have no expectations at all that this is going to be easy or fun or "the time of my life" but I know its where I need to be. I am probably going to be blogging more in the future about my journey there, and I will continue to blog once I'm out there so you can know whats going on. But I just wanted to let everyone know whats going on with me. There will be more details about this whole process in the future, but that is enough for now because this blog is already much too long already. but I love you all. have an awesome day. and remember Pura Vida.
*If you don't remember what pura vida means, go check out my other blog from my past life, "Life of an American College Student."
