i should be packing

I reaaally hate packing. That is a problem! Because I am going to Washington DC for about a week! And I leave on Monday! So I have really got to stop flappin' around and get my game face on and start putting stuff in a suitcase.

(Note: "flappin' around" is a term that some of my VA friends coined that means basically wasting time and doing nothing, especially when you should actually be doing something important.)

The conference is with Campus Outreach, which is an organization at Wofford that focuses on making disciples through building relationships. I actually do not know anything about it, to tell you the truth. My friend from high school, Becca, that goes to Wofford is basically in charge of it and she invited me to come on this little trippy trip, so off I go! It's from the 29th to the 2nd and then I will be staying in Gville and Spartanburg until it is time to go back to Wofford! I loooove school, is that weird? Maybe it's not so much that, I just do not like spending a lot of time at home with my parents. And do not get me wrong, I love my parents, we just do not see eye to eye on a lot of things because I am a hardcore Jesus lover and they think I am a freak of nature because my mom is agnostic and my dad is athiest. How I got out of that household alive, I do not even know, by the grace of God for sure.

They also reaaaaaaaally do not like Young Life. Their biggest fear is that I will not go to medical school and go to seminary instead to be on Young Life staff. That is always the battle in our house. They think that by stopping me from going on Young Life trips, they can totally throw that career route out the window. They are wrong-o. Nothing's going to stop God from doing me what He wants me to do. I think about this a LOT. My parents want me to be a doctor because they want me to have lots of money and have a huge house and really be something to brag about I guess. That does not make sense to me. Why would I pick a career because of money? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. That would mean I would be miserable my whole life! I just think it is really really really really silly that my parents are more concerned with how much money I will make or what my GPA is than they are with my walk with Christ! I was talking to my grandparents that love Jesus this weekend and they said my parents are just looking a gift horse in the mouth, aint that the truth.

Do you know why I want to be a doctor? Because I want to go do international mission work! I want to be a doctor or a surgeon or whatever here in the US, but I want to go do free clinic work in Guatemala and Equador and Bolivia! And I want to go hang out with orphans! And I want to fund missionaries and travel all over and tell people about the love of Jesus! I don't want to be a doctor so I can just make a lot of money and keep it, that is not prospering the kingdom of Heaven. And that is the desire of my heart. I want to adopt little Guatemalan children and free people from hunger and poverty and do free medical work in the name of Jesus Christ. And I want to fund Young Life and be on a YL committee and still have that in my life. I just want to do big things for God.

One day, at a Hope Point lunch at someone's house whose name I cannot recall, I was sitting with our pastor Richard, who is the bomb. And he asked me what my major was, and I told him that I was a pre-med neuroscience-concentrated Biology/Spanish double major. And he said wow. And then I told him that I either wanted to be a Young Life leader or a surgeon. And do you know what he told me? He said, "I think you need to be a doctor. I can see why you want to be a Young Life leader, and that's admirable, but I think that you are a very big picture person and I think you would be a lot happier with a big sphere of influence in God's name." And i just thought that was the coolest thing ever ever ever and now Richard and I are best friends, he calls me Neuroscience Girl and I think that is hilarious.

So you know what? If God wants me to be a doctor, that's what I'll do. And if he wants me to be a Young Life leader, shabam, it will happen. He is pretty unstoppable and I have full faith that He will give me the strength necessary to do either thing. He is cool like that, He equips you especially for what is coming. And who even cares what my parents say, they are delusional. That is the best word for it. Love them, but shew. They give me a headache with all their talk about evolution and how I am a brainwashed fool. I really like being a brainwashed fool, in that case. Delusional! And God loves them anyway, and they just do not even know how cool that is. That makes me smile.

Anyway, I should really stop flappin' around and get my pack on! But I will leave you with 5 more songs I think you need to know about.
1. Hookers and Robbers - Charlie Hall (I know, I know, but look it up!)
2. Rest - Big Daddy Weave
3. Hurricane - Jimmy Needham
4. Yours - Steven Curtis Chapman
5. Sanctified - MercyMe

Now do me a favor...and have a great day!