Coloring outside of the lines

Well, I created this blog as a place to share what God is doing in, through and around me.

He is so ridiculously good. To sum things up a little, I have spent these last few months since being home from Africa learning to understand what this quote means:

"Radical people don't worry about tomorrow...there is no reason in faith that today can't be the best day of your life." - Papa Rolland Baker

I have set out to become radical in everything that I do. What does that really look like day in and out? Well, I don't have all the answers but I do know that when our gaze is on Jesus and our energy is given to becoming like Jesus, we suddenly realize that nothing else really matters. We see that when we see Him each day that our day becomes the best day ever. The Word says we go "from glory to glory"... it only gets better! We will just continue to see more and more of Him if we chose to.

Now, this hasn't been an easy road because I also came home from my three months away in Africa surrounded by radically given people praying something that I knew was dangerous.

I started praying for faith and patience...If we have those two things then we are good to go! We can jump over any mountain and scale any wall.I assumed I was coming home to pack my bags and hit the road around the globe with these crazy laid down lovers. Little did I know that this would bring me into a nursing home looking after 60 confused, lonely and angry people. It is roaming these halls and sitting with these people that I am learning humility, faith, patience, and unconditional love. It is here that I am blinded to the future, feeling the sweet grace and love of the Father and given the choice every night to love despite the fact that I will say the exact same thing the next night answering the exact same questions over and over again.

It is here I face the challenge of finding Him in everything. I believe that is the start to becoming radical. Choosing, despite the circumstances, to find Him in everything and being grateful for that moment that He chose to meet me and making the hard decision to say," You are good.... thank you for where I am at. I know you are good and I know you have the best for me."

Its not about what we know but its about who He is. Embracing this is the start to a life full of joy, peace and unconditional love. I am realizing I don't have to know what tomorrow holds. I am learning to ask, what is the Father saying and doing today? He didn't heal every single sick person, or go out and minister to every single person around the world. He listened and obeyed in the every day life and only moved when the Father moved. He allowed the Father to break his heart for things that breaks the Father's heart.

That to me is being radically given.