As I write, I am sitting on the third floor of the coolest coffee shop on H Street, overlooking the traffic below. DC is such a cool city and I feel more and more like a local with each passing day. Kiersten and I decided to sleep in this morning and take a walk down to this coffee shop for a morning of reading and refocusing before our groups get in this afternoon! Although it has only been 3 weeks, I feel like I’ve been here for months! The other hosts and I often express how we feel like we’ve known each for a lot longer than we actually have.
Over the past 3 weeks, I have finished training, co-hosted a group, been in a wedding (in Missouri!), co-hosted another group, and gone home for a few days. Hosting is such a unique job, and I wish I had the words to fully explain every detail of what I do. Essentially, I am the bridge between our ministry partners in DC and the groups that come in for their missions trip. I navigate the driver, make the dinner reservations, and assure that my group is doing what they’re supposed to be doing at each site. I also get to serve alongside them and build relationships with the groups and the ministry sites. So far, it has definitely been challenging and exhausting, but I will get used to the schedule eventually!
In my last post, I mentioned how much I am learning and the Lord has been so faithful to me these few weeks. I continue to be drawn back to the song Pursue/All I Need Is You by Hillsong. If you haven’t heard it, take a few minutes and listen to it now.
Lead me to You
Forever, Lord, I will pursue
I will pursue
You’ve won my heart
Jesus, You’re all that I want
All that I want
All I need is You
All I need is You Lord
Is You Lord
As some of you may know, my word for the year is
obedience. Initially, I was annoyed that this was the word that God was placing on my heart. I was hoping for something more like
grace or
love because those sounded easier. But instead, I am six months deep into what obedience looks like. (News flash: I still don’t know.) What I am learning is that the first, and perhaps most important step of obedience looks like pursuit. When I am constantly being led back to the Lord, and when I honestly say “Jesus, you’re all that I want,” then obedience comes easily because I want to be where Jesus is. Which sounds great and easy in theory, but practicing this is much, much harder. I’m human. I want what I want (my mom says I’m stubborn). I want my plans to go how I planned them, and instead nothing is going as planned. And I’m still processing (or learning how to process) through that. This summer, I’m desperately seeking the Lord to provide the next step, for me and for my family. Even when the next step may not make sense to me.
God is good. No matter how I feel, or what I’m experiencing. He is faithful. He will provide. He is our strength. In Him I find rest. He’s all I need.
Prayer Requests:
– for my team as we welcome in our next round of groups!
– for our groups and our ministry partners: to God be the glory
– for DC – that God would continue to work in the hearts of those who live here
– for wisdom and direction