happy Monday!

Hope in Haiti

As I travel from place to place, a certain little place for each is carved out in my heart, and it mainly is for the people. Without a doubt, this was the case for my travel to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti this summer with a Global Health Outreach. I could not have prepared myself for the time I was there if I tried. In the news and headlines you hear the ringing outs of "Haiti is hopeless" and if there is one thing I would come back begging to differ with, it is that Haiti is not hopeless because I looked into the faces of hope and I have seen it. I know the names of hope there. The people blessed me in ways that I cannot express. In the most humble of ways, taught me the richest lessons. To have a radiant lady with the biggest of eyes, with clothes that clearly do not fit and no shoes, sit in front of me that has quite literally lost everything from the earthquake and has had 6 miscarriages declare the Lord is GOOD and FAITHFUL, brings me to my knees. The joy that comes from the overflow of God and not circumstances in their lives is nothing short of challenging, yet encouraging and refreshing. I miss these faces today, and everyday rather, but especially today.

c'mon fall, ya know you wanna

Can't wait for this to happen,

So this can happen,

Life for me has been all over the place lately. Bee-bopping from place to place all the time, work, weddings, out of the country, this & that, here & there. Being in one place for more than five days would be a luxury. Traveling has not always been something I thought I would do a lot, but I have realized something so sweet about the Lord in all of the going. Growing up between two houses and going back and forth taught me a precious thing so early that I now treasure --- this is earth is not my home, not this house or that house, not Montgomery, not Auburn, not Atlanta -- and that FREES me up to be who I was created to be. That my roots are in Christ alone, not a specific place. Not to mention, this also creates an incredible freedom to truly invest in wherever I am and whoever I am around, truly knowing whose I am and where my heart is meant for. Frees me up to experience His fullness.

My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. 
In Him is total freedom and fullness of JOY.
Now in Him alone, I live and move and have my being.