Summer Recap

The marathon of summer is over! It certainly was better than anything I could have expected. I spent lots of time with great leaders and students, lives were changed, and God showed up in so many awesome ways!

I don't think I could pick one best memory from the whole thing. The Dominican, our anniversary, CiY, Terp trip, Fallston Baccalaureate, summer FUELs, New York, great conversations with lots of great people... it'll be tough to top this one for sure.

To go further, I could probably recap this entire year. This has been one of the toughest, but definitely one of the most exciting! Death, birth, new friends, lost friends, conflicts, scholarships, questions, CPAC, soul-searching, growing, reaching out, NYWC, doing terribly, doing greatly, watching people succeed, seeing people fail; this has truly been the best of times and the worst of times.

With all that said, God calls each of us to go beyond, to do more in life than we ever thought we could. While I've definitely done that this year, I also know there's still more to come. God has more work to do in & through my life, and so I say with Paul:

"Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:12-14)

I've got a long way to go to be who God made me to be, but I'm definitely becoming that person. So far, it's been an incredible journey, an amazing ride, and an abundant life. My hope is that as we press on toward what comes next, that God will continue to blaze a trail for us as we begin the next chapter of our story. May God do the same for you!