So I've been thinking about this blog for a while, how to start it, what I want to say in it, how to best share this summer with friends and family back home, lots of things. I've decided that I will just ramble and see how it goes :)
Hardcore, athletic, crazy...these are three new attributes that friends, family, strangers and acquaintances call me when they find out that I'm biking across America this summer. These are three words that are pretty much opposite of how people have seen me for the previous 20 years. I've never participated in sports, rarely exercised, and I like to make safe choices and decisions. Sweet, nice, innocent little Kristen is what I've been called more often, but those who know me well also know that there is little I wont do in the name of helping and serving people in need.
May God bless us with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that we may live deep within our hearts.
May God bless us with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that we may work for justice, freedom and peace.
May God bless us with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation and war, so that we may reach out our hands to comfort them and turn their pain into joy.
And may God bless us with enough foolishness to believe that we can make a difference in this world, so that we can do what others claim cannot be done.
I love being sweet, nice and innocent-but I'm just as excited to be hardcore, athletic and crazy.
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I'm getting so excited for you to finally get started on this journey of a lifetime and I can just hear the tremendous passion you hold in your heart through your words. Love you so much and praying much over you! Blessing as you wrap up the final preparations!!! from Aunt Dianne
ReplyDeleteMay 19....The journey begins. God bless you.
ReplyDelete"Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ." Philippians 1:6