I'm Feeling 22

As I am blaring Taylor Swift's song "22", it is finally hitting me: I am 22 years old. This is my last birthday at Boise Bible College, this was the year I went to Mexico with Newberg Christian Church, this was the year that God wrecked me at the International Conference on Missions and sent me to Germany. It has been one heck of a year but it has been one of the best years of my life. God has challenged me and grown me in ways that I never would have imagined. I am in love with the last year of my life and I am incredibly excited to see what happens within this next year.



In less than two weeks I will be attending ICOM again (brace yourself Ohio) and I am finishing up my last year here at BBC. I don't know what is going to happen, I could be on the mission field, in seminary, or something equally as exciting by this time next year. What I do know is this though, God is working something in me that I cannot even begin to imagine. It is terrifying to admit that I am not in control of my own destiny but I know that God is going to work some incredible things in my life but even more importantly in the lives of the people around me. I wouldn't be the man I am today if it weren't for the people that have poured into me.

Whether you are in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, the rest of the 50 states, Germany, Africa, or anywhere else in the world, God has used you to shape me in ways that I never would have thought possible and I am grateful. You have been a part of my life and that is something that I love.

As my 21st year wrapped up, I prayed a simple prayer. "God push me farther than you have pushed me before, break my heart for what breaks yours." Its probably one of the most dangerous prayers I have ever prayed but who knows, maybe this next year is going to be better than I ever could have imagined.