A lot of change has happened within the last month. It all started when my parents were seriously considering the decision to move to Colorado. Being at school, I was disconnected from much of the decision making process, and would get periodic updates every time I talked to them. Being one who doesn’t mind change, and actually anticipates it, I was the most excited about the idea of moving. Ever since junior year, after the Asia Infusion, I have had this dream to be involved with the Great Commission ministries. But since MSU didn’t have that on campus, I thought, I’ll just be involved with whatever the Lord brings to my table, and be content with that… then after college, maybe God will bring me to a place where I’ll be able to partner more closely with the community I’ve just barely tasted, and savored every moment of.
However, my first year of college widened my perspective on things a lot. There were so many ministries, so many churches, so many Godly people laying their lives down to serve the Lord using their talents and giftings. I was overwhelmed. What if God has this for my life? What if God has that for my life? I would wonder each time I stepped into a new community. They were all so good.
Second semester, I met my now really good friend Lea and had the opportunity to go to her home in Joplin one weekend. To make a long story short, after much prayer and thought, I decided to spend the summer there with her. Logically, that was a stupid, spontaneous and just out right strange decision. Common sense told me I should either spend my last summer in Lee’s Summit with old friends before I was separated from them, or I should move to Colorado when my parents did, find a job and begin investing in relationships that would affect the rest of my year there. I did neither. For some strange reason, I felt a magnetic pull towards City Wide ( the ministry center that Lea and I go to). So a week after school was out, I packed up my room, and began my journey to a nowhere Missouri town, just hoping that I was hearing the Lord correctly.
A week after my arrival, an F5 tornado hit Joplin right smack down in the heart of the city. I was a block away from it. If that tornado had touched down just a little sooner, City Wide along with everyone who was there would probably be wiped out considering that it had no basement and front doors made out of glass. It was by no mistake that our ministry center was untouched, and by no mistake was my work place completely okay. God's logic prevails. I was there by no mistake. A small town that was once nowhere land became the center of the world. I was 15 minutes away from an area missionaries from all over were being sent to. Could it be that the Lord had planned for me to be there? I think so.
I am now sitting in my new room in Fort Collins, CO, using my "new" macbook, one in which the “2”, “w”, “s” and “x” key work on the keyboard, now I can type freely. Ah, what a relief! Tomorrow I go back to Joplin for another two months while my parents continue to settle into our new home. God is good. The uncertainty of the Lords desire for my life is continually being replaced with peace and excitement.
