Well, hello and welcome to my new blog for the new chapter in my life. I am currently sitting in Illinois, soaking up some time with friends and family that is turning out to be SO good for my soul, and in 1 day I will be leaving for a two day drive to Hinesville, Georgia. There, I will be learning how to disciple other women, growing spiritually in my own walk and knowledge of the Word, as well as living in community with a family on staff with the Navigator's Military Ministry. I'm pretty excited about my future in Georgia and what God is going to do with me there.
To be honest, I wasn't THIS excited until today. I went for about an hour long walk with God and just listened to Him inspire my heart. It's going to be hard to explain, but I want to try...
One thing I really value is community. A close second is simple living. As I look back on my life I see how God has been implementing these values into my heart. Starting my sophomore year of college, I felt a real call to inner city, spent a summer without a lot of stuff at camp, made really good friends who would call themselves "social activists", learned guitar, was inspired to start writing my own music, poems, and journal entries, started to go through de-materializing spurts where I would throw away a lot of my junk, saw the value of LIVING in the inner city in order to really reach those there, had three amazing roommates my senior year who are all so very different but inspirational to my life, spent a year in Bakersfield, California where I was given all of my furniture and saw how great it was to receive, and came home and got rid of everything that I couldn't fit in the back seat of my car and one suitcase.
Also, while I still have the desire to write for a living someday, on my walk today, I think I realized that it would be more beneficial to write something like a Bible Study instead of a "self-help" book. I don't want to be the cause of people collecting more and more books and stuff - or part of the American marketing system. And I don't want to draw people away from reading the Bible. In fact, I've recently not desired to read anything except my Bible... to know that inside and out and have it memorized and hidden away in my heart. Writing on the internet seems to be ok for now - I want to use the gift I feel God has given me, but I don't want it to result in people spending their money on more things they don't need. Maybe I'll revolutionize books into e-books... although, that's probably already been done.
Anyway - I'll keep you updated about my life in Southern Georgia!
Until then,
Rebecca
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