Taking the Plunge

At two and a half weeks out from my trip, I've encountered a barrage of new things as I've prepared for the logistics of this journey: European electrical adaptors, exchange rates, fundraising, and medical evacuation insurance. I've tried to wrap my mind around the new things I will experience daily once I arrive: people driving on the wrong side of the road, immigrants and refugees who have spent their lives moving and fleeing, 3 national languages and innumerable Arabic dialects, Arab culture in Europe, living with two newlyweds, a long-time national feud between the Flemish and the French, an aversion to Americans, and former Muslims who have sacrificed much to profess Christ as Lord and Savior. There has been so much "newness" already and much more to come.
This blog that you're reading is another new thing in my life, something that will be both an experimental art and a discipline for me to maintain, but a valuable way to communicate with you. As with many commitments in my life, I will struggle with a prideful "all or nothing" attitude towards it, either updating you every day or barely at all. I'm going to give it my best shot. Thank you for caring enough to read.
This creation is called Seeking & Sent because I am seeking and sent... and because my name was already taken.
I'm seeking God and what He's up to in the world, in my community, in my friends, and in me. My life is about discovering who He is, who I am, and who He wants me to become. I am a curious and expectant seeker.
I am also sent. I have been sent to represent Christ to those around me- to the cashier at the grocery store, to my family, to those I'll be working with in Brussels, to my church, to acquiantances, and to friends. Every morning, God wakes me up and sends me with a vision and a message. What an adventure it is to be sent.

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.  Isaiah 43:19