a certain tattoo.

There are not many things i would change about my life right now.
I've felt this season coming for so long. the season of change and adventure. I never know what is exactly going to happen, but i always know its going to be exciting and somewhat uncertain.
I am definitely staffing a DTS and discovering a newfound respect for the leaders of my own school last january. These people really have given their lives for a cause beyond any of us. for something so unspeakably awesome, so unkown, yet so familiar. No matter the how high the stress levels get, there is this quiet whisper in my soul that says "you belong here." Where once i was dying to feel something, anything, to stop the numbness, now i am crying for people. all people.
Here i am, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, learning how to live. really live.
As staff, we were asked to pray about and decide this DTS's theme verse. Lindsay, my oldest sister has a tattoo on her back consisting of three (large) nautical stars, and then the reference "phil 2:14-15" underneath them. this is the only thing i could think of the whole time we were praying. lo and behold, it has become our official theme verse. and i think its perfect. In the message's version of the verse, it says at one point, "go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in a squalid and polluted society." seeing as Im going to india, i cannot think of a better mental image of what we are going to be amidst those crowded, dirty streets, those hidden slums. A breath of fresh air. Is God himself not in the very air we breath?
"Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in the universe."
philipians 2:14-15
if you think of it, pray for us. not necessarily for protection, or courage, but for every breath we breathe, that we are bringing people closer to christ.