Week 1

Many people hate change.  Hate is a strong word.  Change is definitely hard, but it can also be exciting and renewing.  Change and I are very familiar. He visits me often lately and when he does, its always in a dramatic way.  To me, change is dramatic, and I do my best to live a drama free life.  Thankfully, his last visit was welcomed! David and I just got married, went on our honeymoon and are now unpacking our new apartment in OKC.   It was not easy leaving my friends in Roswell and moving even farther away from my parents.  However, this change needed to happen.  Now that we are in Oklahoma, I feel like I have lived here for a while; like it is home (despite the boxes I still need to unpack).  Now that I have begun this new chapter in life, I have never been more certain that this is where I am supposed to be.  I feel like everyday in OKC so far has been a constant reassurance of that.  I am so excited to begin my new job teaching ESL and meet so many new people. 

I have caught myself at more than one point feeling like I am a missionary.  What’s odd is that this is how I should have been feeling my entire Christian life.  My prayer for myself is that this responsible feeling will not go away.  I need to continue with this mindset for the rest of my life.  It definitely makes me aware that every moment is a missional moment and every person I meet may be someone that I can build a relationship with and lead to Christ.  That doesn’t mean that I have to tell them about Jesus right away, but it does mean that every word I say and action I make can impact their decision for Christ.   All this has really been heightened since most of the people we meet want to know why we moved here.  When we tell them that we moved here to help plant a church, we are already putting it out there that we are Christian and I personally feel a huge responsibility to not mess that up by saying or doing something stupid.  So, I would like to ask anyone who reads it to please pray that I don’t mess this up.  Its super easy to do which is why so many people dislike Christians.  I would love to meet those people and be someone who helps change their mindset.