"The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet."
As part of the Project Transformation experience, every Friday we as interns visit various service agencies around Dallas. This is meant to be an opportunity for us to explore a few different areas of ministry. Along with helping kids and improving literacy, the second main objective of Project Transformation is to help college-aged young adults discover their calling in life. This past Friday we didn't start Friday experience quite yet, but instead we had a sort of introduction to the whole thing.
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| Lovin' the green PT polo... |
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| Team Chapel Hill! |
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| Chapel Hill Youth Interns. :) |
We all went to a church around 9 am and one of the PT staff members gave us a presentation about passion, purpose, dreams, and identity. Afterwards, various stations were set up around the room regarding the 4 different topics. The purpose of the day was to give us an opportunity to sit and reflect.
Whether our focus of the day was dreams, purpose, passion, or identity, each of us were given about 25 minutes with an art medium of our choice to draw, write, whatever other creative things we could do with a marker something that was on our minds and hearts. Some people chose to remain inside, seated at the tables provided.
I, however, prefer to do most of my major reflecting outside. I love to sit in God's earth and spend time with Him as He does work in my heart. Crazy work that leaves me wondering what happens next. Beautiful work that stirs up a deep longing for justice from within my soul.
As I ventured outside, a few others chose to join me...
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| Courtney |
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| Gabe |
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| Josh |
I sat and thought about the quote I had heard earlier in the morning... God's calling on our lives relates to the world's hunger... What a beautiful, perfect sentiment, reflective of a beautiful, perfect God. My issue with helping others has never been than I haven't been able to find enough to do. I have always had a heart for so many people and issues that it makes it extremely difficult to devote myself entirely to one cause.
We live in an extremely hungry world. A world of crime, darkness, perversion, and shame.
BUT we also live in a world that is filled with people who God has called.
People who thirst for righteousness.
People who God has specifically chosen to do work for His kingdom.
As it says in 1 Corinthians 12:18,
"But in fact, God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as He wanted them to be."
What a beautiful, perfect God.
So why would He place such a burden on my soul? A burden for those who hunger, who need to be clothed, who need to be LOVED?
As I pondered, my thoughts continued to drift back to the Las Vegas Urban Project. My focus was diverted towards a yearning in my soul to do something. And so I started writing. What would it look like to create this dream of mine?
I want to build partnerships and community among different agencies around the city in order to transform the city that is recognized for its sin into a city whose light cannot be contained.
I want to bring truth and love and justice and growth.
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