Such a Beautiful Place to be with Friends

Dobby, the humble hero and courageous elf died. Rest in peace dearest Dobby.

That's What You Get When You Let Your Heart Win

Watching someone settle for less, when they are destined for such greatness, is possibly the most helpless and miserable heartache I know. To know that someone hears satan's lies over God's eternal truth breaks my heart.

I Dreamed a Dream!

The Lord revealing things through dreams is very common in biblical times. Hearing people testify that God has used dreams to speak to them in this day and age is less prevalent. We'll come back to this in a minute.

In a bible study I'm currently doing, the last section was about our dreams and passions. I was asked to list five long term dreams I had for my life. My biggest dream is to travel the world and love people, so narrowing it down and coming up with five specific dreams was kind of hard for me. I'm a huge dreamer, and horrible about specifics and narrowing down possibilities. I did however come up with five dreams..okay, six dreams:

1. Be great wife and mother material (and thennnnn when God shows me that special guy, blackmail him into marrying me and have me some chilluns).
2. Be a motivational speaker. (Of course, for this to occur God has to make my life ... interesting.)
3. Be a psychologist/counselor for hurting people. Specifically sexually battered women, orphans, and the abused and abandoned.
4. One day, sit comfortably with my father, discussing our faith and our love of Christ, sharing our testimonies.
5. Be involved in rescuing and treating women involved in sex trafficking.
6. Help kids in unloving homes find peace in the knowledge that they are children of God above all.  (CDA)

Okay, so even when listing these, I didn't feel satisfied with the list. I want more. I want to do something spectacular with my life. If my life was a book, I would want it to be one that has people laughing, crying,  dreaming, and above all, believing that if God can do something incredible with the life of Katie Walker, how could He not do the same with theirs?

This void led me to prayer.

"Lord, who am I? What could I possibly do with my life that will proclaim Your name and Your love with the intensity that I desire? I'm blank, God. I'm lost and I don't know where to start looking. I'm not asking for You to reveal to me everything in my future, but Lord, can you open doors and show me paths that will lead me to Your desire for my life. I want your desires to be mine and I want my life to line up with Your will."

That night, I dreamed about teaching english to, what appeared to be, little eskimoe children. In my dream there was a narrator, and he very clearly said that the tribe I was teaching only had 2,000 words in their vocabulary. When I woke up, I was like...what the crap? I just dreamed about eskimoes. Am I supposed to move to Alaska?! The more I thought about it, it could have very well been me dreaming about the orphans in Moldova I will be loving on this December. ESL, english as a second language, is a major here at HPU that I had never heard of until earlier this semester. I remember thinking I could do that in the mission field!

All of this to say,
I believe God is giving me glimpses of His will for me.
What an amazing creator we serve!
He can speak to us through anything in any circumstance.

Faith, Hope and Love.
And the greatest of these is love.

:)

Sweet Surrender

I was recently blessed with the oppurtunity to go on a mission trip to Moldova (located between Ukraine and Romania) over Christmas break. It is exactly 38 days from now! The trip will be a life-changing experience, to say the least. However, the real beauty starts now. To say that God has blessed me beyond measure in these past months would be an understatement. I have never felt the hand of God like I have these past few weeks. Our beautiful savior is a personal and faithful father and friend.

Please be praying for me and the team I will be traveling with to Moldova.

Peace and love up in the club,

Katie