"you have the rest of your life"
it's official! This summer I will be serving as the housekeeping intern at Creekside at Washington Family Ranch in Oregon. Last summer, I spent a month volunteering at the high school camp a mile away and was challenged in really hard things and affirmed in really good things. When I came home, I chose trust as my word for the year. Trusting in the Lord through a hard academic year, a challenging relational year, a growing spiritual year. In the months following my time on summer staff, I contemplated the future but tried not to worry about what I would be doing for summer employment. In November, I started looking for opportunities for jobs. After a long, prayerful application and two interviews, I was offered the job. I was not sure that I was qualified. I was not sure that I wanted to do it. Eleanor Roosevelt once said that you should do something that scares you once a day. I like to think that I live by this mantra, but for me, it's more...