Hello world. I know I have been away from writing for a very long time. In fact I promised myself many times that I would return to writing but I was never successful. So much has happened in the 2 years that I stopped writing. I’ve graduated from school again and started working full time for Special Olympics Southern California. In fact, I just received a promotion. I’ve started dancing again and it has not only been absolutely incredible but it has begun to do wonders on my body. I’ve also began serving in the greatest children’s ministry and young adult ministry on planet earth. There’s been so much in between to mention but the last two years have certainly been a blessing.
As some of you may know my original goal with blogging was to share my life and experiences with the world. When I moved to California in 2012 it was the first time that I had permanently been away from my family. Living on the other side of the country made it a little harder to share all the details of my life with the people who helped shaped it. So I decided to start writing. Then life happened. Yep you know that thing called life crept up on me and I got way too busy and distracted to keep writing. One missed week turned into one missed year and before you knew it almost two and half years later I am sitting here writing this post.
In the time I’ve been gone I’ve changed as a person. I’ve really grown in my relationship with God and have moved from a place of just surviving to thriving in him. I mean that in every sense of the words. When I moved I was a poor graduate student whose pay checks barely covered rent alone and was forced to survive on financial aid and my hard working parents. I was also really lonely and isolated on the inside. Now I am thriving. In that time, I’ve gotten planted within my church, finished school, really connected with the people I’ve met here in California, landed the job of my dreams, and have the chance to serve people every day of my life.
So what really changed you asked? The biggest change in my life is that I’ve learned to stop praying to God for things to change and started learning to make the change happen. I reached a point where I was tired of just asking God for godly friends and decided to start hanging around them. I stopped praying for God to use me and started doing something so I could be used. My heart been burning with the desire to share all of these amazing revelations that I’ve been receiving from God with those around me and now I am putting myself in the right position for him to do that. This blog is just the start of more things to come.
I decided to name this blog “Girl on Fire. Inspiring action in your now season” for a lot of reasons. You see I put off starting this blog out of fear of what people were going to think of the new me and spent lots of days talking myself out of it because I couldn’t see where every thought was going to come from or how things were going to work out. I also let that thing called life get in the way by making up the “I’m busy” excuse and allowing that to be the reason why I couldn’t find the time to sit down and share what’s been on my heart. But even in the time that I've been gone there's always been that fire. I've always had the burning desire to do something that could inspire the people around me. I am determined to start acting now. This post is coming at a pivotal point in my life. This post is aligning with confirmation upon confirmation that I've been receiving about moving forward in my God given destiny. I finally decided to do just that.
My heart for this blog is to use my life experiences to inspire someone else to pursue to their God given destiny. This blog is just one of the many things that I've put on the back burner. I’ve put off a lot of things that God has been telling me to do for too long and now it’s time to step out on faith and make the most of the time he has given me. By reading this I hope that you are inspired to make the time you have now the best it can ever be.
Sincerely,
A girl on fire
As some of you may know my original goal with blogging was to share my life and experiences with the world. When I moved to California in 2012 it was the first time that I had permanently been away from my family. Living on the other side of the country made it a little harder to share all the details of my life with the people who helped shaped it. So I decided to start writing. Then life happened. Yep you know that thing called life crept up on me and I got way too busy and distracted to keep writing. One missed week turned into one missed year and before you knew it almost two and half years later I am sitting here writing this post.
In the time I’ve been gone I’ve changed as a person. I’ve really grown in my relationship with God and have moved from a place of just surviving to thriving in him. I mean that in every sense of the words. When I moved I was a poor graduate student whose pay checks barely covered rent alone and was forced to survive on financial aid and my hard working parents. I was also really lonely and isolated on the inside. Now I am thriving. In that time, I’ve gotten planted within my church, finished school, really connected with the people I’ve met here in California, landed the job of my dreams, and have the chance to serve people every day of my life.
So what really changed you asked? The biggest change in my life is that I’ve learned to stop praying to God for things to change and started learning to make the change happen. I reached a point where I was tired of just asking God for godly friends and decided to start hanging around them. I stopped praying for God to use me and started doing something so I could be used. My heart been burning with the desire to share all of these amazing revelations that I’ve been receiving from God with those around me and now I am putting myself in the right position for him to do that. This blog is just the start of more things to come.
I decided to name this blog “Girl on Fire. Inspiring action in your now season” for a lot of reasons. You see I put off starting this blog out of fear of what people were going to think of the new me and spent lots of days talking myself out of it because I couldn’t see where every thought was going to come from or how things were going to work out. I also let that thing called life get in the way by making up the “I’m busy” excuse and allowing that to be the reason why I couldn’t find the time to sit down and share what’s been on my heart. But even in the time that I've been gone there's always been that fire. I've always had the burning desire to do something that could inspire the people around me. I am determined to start acting now. This post is coming at a pivotal point in my life. This post is aligning with confirmation upon confirmation that I've been receiving about moving forward in my God given destiny. I finally decided to do just that.
My heart for this blog is to use my life experiences to inspire someone else to pursue to their God given destiny. This blog is just one of the many things that I've put on the back burner. I’ve put off a lot of things that God has been telling me to do for too long and now it’s time to step out on faith and make the most of the time he has given me. By reading this I hope that you are inspired to make the time you have now the best it can ever be.
Sincerely,
A girl on fire