Dream..11/17/2010

BIG.

Ok, God. I get it. A year ago God gave me a pretty substantial amount of encouragement..just in how He made me and that the way I was doing things was not "weird", it was just "me". That, although, I may be a little unconventional from my family's thoughts or traditions, my heart and life are for Him. And that was what He needed from me.

These "ways" of mine come in the form of spontaneity, complete randomness, and maybe even awkward situations sometimes...but this is just my life. and I love it.

So this year, I've been interning at the Wesley Foundation at UGA. Normally, I have no idea and could not begin to guess where I would be in a year but for some reason I felt an urgency to start preparing for the next "something", whatever that would be. I had decided on going to graduate school for Christian marriage and family counseling. I had prayed about it and really felt like that would be okay...but something wasn't quite right..I just was not sure what that meant.

Around September I was given another random bit of encouragement from a girl on staff who doesn't know me that well. It said " God loves the dreams of your heart and He wants you to dream even more and even bigger." I said ok. This was what I needed. I started praying about it and this lead me to the World Race. I always knew I was not made for grad school/settling down for even longer(..because the past 4 years, even with transferring 2 times, have left me pretty stir crazy). So begin World Race adventure.

Another month later, just in passing conversation, I was told that I was clearly made to dream big.

Fast forward another month, to this past Monday, my discipler, Laura, was praying for me before we met and she told me she just felt like God wanted to tell me to "Dream Big". I told her the pattern going and she said that maybe God just wants me to pray more about it...Then, that night she tells me to check my email.
In it I found a forward from her. It was an email sent to all the directors of Wesley about the prayer topic for our 7:30 Prayer time on Tuesday morning that we all go to. The topic for the next morning? "Dream Big"

hmmm...