And He said to them, “Go into all the world and      proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Mark 16:15

Isaiah 55 is one of my favorite verses that I found soon after my first trip to Bulgaria as I reflected on what my summer had just left with me. The reason I bring this up first is because it's a wonderful reminder of the Lords sovereign will, His grand and unique design and how mighty the God of the universe is. In this case leaving no room for me to doubt or worry when it comes to God "accomplishing that which I(he) purpose".

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So now I will tell you a little about myself.

What kind of life did I grow up in? I am 1of 5 children, so life was wonderful and crazy. And as to where I grew up, that would be dependent on what period in my life I was doing the growing. Ever since I was little my Father has been a protestant Pastor. I grew up in a safe and loving home with both of my parents raising us kids to love and obey God. I know I heard the Gospel of God even before I was born. But in my younger years I had no idea the impact of this and what serving the King of the universe even meant. My thought now, is that I will never fully understand the depth of this concept.

 I Have had a special opportunity to view my parents and siblings for many years now, and see the impact of God in everyone life, which has had a major impact on how I see the world. Like everyone of God's children He has a purpose and a reason for everything that happens in our lives.

I just can't seem to come to a different conclusion.

But this took me a long time figure out. I would say that one of my major turning points in my life would be the extreme move from Miami Florida to  a little town in the middle of Wyoming. Oh how God uses trials to mold his children. :) With out too much detail I will just say that my high school years made for some major turning points in my life and how serious we as children should be about a Real Life God. And One thought leads to another, form a thought to an idea, from an idea to an action which leads to history. My time in Wyoming had me itching to head off to school in a different state where I could REALLY  learn my Purpose in life. So I headed out, in providence, to Northern Michigan. Where, I thought, I would become a world renown, cosmentologist.

To that point I am so glad my dreams did not come true. But the wonderful fact is that I did become a cosmetologist which led me to discover the mission field. which in turn leads to the reason I even have a blog in the first place.

What changed? I would say, which I will keep saying, my heart is changing all the time. When I started school to probably mid-way through, I was positive I wanted to be an all out hair blowing, color changing, shear flinging hair stylist. Come to find out, some people don't come to a salon to get their hair done or the nails looking just right. I found many people came because they needed someone to talk to for as long as their service would allow. To my discovery they don't teach you phycology or how to solve peoples life problems in an hour. I didn't find a chapter on that topic.

But I did know something else. Something that wouldn't necessarily change all their circumstances. But most certainly change their entire life and all they new. The Gospel! 

I wish I could say I discovered the perfect way to share the gospel with every soul that sat in my chair. I wish I would say I was faithful every time to speak up and share the truth. I wish I could say when I did share the truth I did the truth justice.

But the truth is I am a crooked stick and only God can make a crooked stick draw a straight line. So to that, I am reminded of Isaiah 55. And many other passages of God's will being done despite using as sinner. I look at the apostle Paul. A man with a passion to destroy the church of Christ, then to be completely reborn and faithfully serving Jesus Christ with all his Soul. Protecting the ones he once tried to destroy. We have so much reason to Hope in Christ.

So by the time I graduated beauty school I had been through a whirl wind of change and especially what my desires where. I no longer wanted to be a high falutin hair stylist. I learned through the people God placed in my chair, That the knowledge of someones total depravity and the God who can save you from it, is much more important than how you look while living in total depravity. Which is not to say your can't do that while being an amazing cosmetologist and leaving out your christian life while working in a salon. But this is not where I felt led to go. I was encourage by my faithful church and family to go on a mission trip and see what God would do with those new desires. 

Now we come to why I have this blog.

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