These last few weeks have been an incredible experience for me as I cry, laugh, shout, yell, and inevitably run from zombies in a church at midnight. I don't know what God has in store for me as I face the remainder of this summer but I know that He is good and that He loves me (despite the fact that the zombies got me in church).
This last week has been incredible, I have been able to meet so many new people and hear so many new stories and I wish you could get the chance to know them. They are incredible people with beautiful stories. That fact is what hit me on Wednesday night. I was walking around Tubingen and I was getting to know different people and hear their stories, and I realized that each and every person around me has a story that is completely different from mine in some ways and very similar in other ways even though we are from different corners of the world. It is a little bit mind boggling when you try and put it all together.
The men and women here have become very important to me in only two and a half weeks and I cannot imagine leaving them at the end of the summer (so I am not going to think about it). But this short amount of time has encouraged me to think about the stories of the people around me and my own story. What do our stories look like? Do they have a theme song (Mine would probably be either Shakira's This Time for Africa or Pompeii by Bastille)? Is their story just beginning or coming to a close? Wherever you are people have a story to tell and I think that these stories all point back to the fact that God is there through the good times and the bad times. Through the culture shock and the triumphs. You are the star of your own story as it is written by the hand of God. So, I suppose the question I ask myself today, "What will my story look like this summer" and "What will my part be in other people's stories?"
I want my story this summer to be filled with grace and love towards the people around me, deep friendships, and maybe a couple of dragons (What is a good story without a dragon). Most of all though, I want to grow in knowledge of who Christ is and of his love for me and the people around me. Nathan Fillion said it best in Castle with his line "I'm in it for the story."
This last week has been incredible, I have been able to meet so many new people and hear so many new stories and I wish you could get the chance to know them. They are incredible people with beautiful stories. That fact is what hit me on Wednesday night. I was walking around Tubingen and I was getting to know different people and hear their stories, and I realized that each and every person around me has a story that is completely different from mine in some ways and very similar in other ways even though we are from different corners of the world. It is a little bit mind boggling when you try and put it all together.
The men and women here have become very important to me in only two and a half weeks and I cannot imagine leaving them at the end of the summer (so I am not going to think about it). But this short amount of time has encouraged me to think about the stories of the people around me and my own story. What do our stories look like? Do they have a theme song (Mine would probably be either Shakira's This Time for Africa or Pompeii by Bastille)? Is their story just beginning or coming to a close? Wherever you are people have a story to tell and I think that these stories all point back to the fact that God is there through the good times and the bad times. Through the culture shock and the triumphs. You are the star of your own story as it is written by the hand of God. So, I suppose the question I ask myself today, "What will my story look like this summer" and "What will my part be in other people's stories?"
I want my story this summer to be filled with grace and love towards the people around me, deep friendships, and maybe a couple of dragons (What is a good story without a dragon). Most of all though, I want to grow in knowledge of who Christ is and of his love for me and the people around me. Nathan Fillion said it best in Castle with his line "I'm in it for the story."
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