My Journey

Hello and Welcome!

Whether you are friends or family that I told about this blog or a visiting reader, welcome! This summer I am going to Abidjan, in the Ivory Coast for a 6 week mission trip with Campus Crusade for Christ and I wanted to start this blog in order to share with everyone the amazing things God is going to do this summer.

I wanted to name this blog something to do with travel, seeing as it is to share what happens on my travels, to Africa but also out here at school and wherever God may call me next. I felt God put the song "Joy in the Journey" by Michael Card on my heart. It seemed fitting, being about a journey, and I really feel like joy is something God taught me about last summer when I went to Mozambique. I just looked up the lyrics and wanted to share them with you.

There is a joy in the journey

There's a light we can love on the way

There is a wonder and wildness to life

And freedom for those who obey

And all those who seek it shall find it

A pardon for all who believe

Hope for the hopeless and sight for the blind

To all who've been born in the Spirit

And who share incarnation with Him

Who belong to eternity stranded in time

And weary of struggling with sin

Forget not the hope that's before you

And never stop counting the cost

Remember the hopelessness when you were lost

There is a joy in the journey

There's a light we can love on the way

There is a wonder and wildness to life

And freedom for those who obey

This fits so perfectly with what God has been teaching me as I prepare for this trip! I really feel like this mission trip is something God has called me to do, and I am so thankful for that freedom He gives when we step out in obedience. I pray that this summer that I may experience his joy, love, and hope in new and amazing ways and that I can pour those out on those I meet.