Jesus often interrupts our very mundane ordinary lives to wake us up for the need to change. Change is something that is coming, and it is coming like lightning bolts. Going to the Passion Conference this week, has really helped me to refocus. Mainly just to get me thinking again.

I think for so much of this semester I was kind of dead to what was going on around me. I didn’t take into account the fact that everything I was/am doing has dramatic effect on the people/things around me. With this new year I plan to refocus my energy in a different sort of light.

This year is going to be scary, but it is going to be completely worth it all. I am graduating, I will be moving (somewhere, anywhere), I will hopefully be making it back to Ghana, I will change lives. At least that is my intent. If there is one thing that I’ve learned though, it’s that you can’t seemingly plan too much, because just when you do Jesus comes in and shipwrecks your life. It’s a beautiful mess.

The fruit of our faith glorifies God publicly. That is what we are here to do. We are here to glorify God publicly. Whether we are doctors, firefighters, photographers, filmmakers, architects, whatever it is. Our purpose is that we may fearlessly and boldly proclaim the glory of the Lord. In any and every thing that you do. This is our first prayer.

“Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.” -Ephesians 6:19-20

So whatever this year brings, whatever trials and tribulations come my way, I will make known the glory of the Lord for it all. I will praise him when I am happy, I will praise Him when I am down.

This new perspective is one of beauty. It is one of freedom. This is what the world needs more of. More freedom. Not freedom from rules of the government, or freedom from our parents, or freedom from school. We need freedom of the soul and spirit. We need the freedom/passion/desire to live out the will of God in our lives. We need to have the freedom that comes with faith. Letting go of our fears and our inhibitions and just going for the gold.

I am going to take advantage of this season in my life, and I am going to live it all for His glory. I am going to help those in need, and I am going to try my hardest to shine His light in the darkness.

I can’t wait to see what this year has in store, and where God is going to lead me. It is a new adventure, and a new perspective for it all. Selah.

In His Love,
Buffy

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