It is officially a new year, and although this is old news (yes, I am a month late... oops!), I am still embracing the newness and the new possibilities and opportunities I have to look forward to. The start of the new semester has been filled celebrations, joy, laughter, friends, and surprises.
Also since the last time I posted, I got the amazing opportunity to travel with my family to the Dominican Republic (I can officially check that off my bucket list) for Christmas.
After the DR, I was off on another plane headed to Baltimore where I got to see some amazing people whom I worked with during the month of August at Saranac Village (a Young Life camp in upstate NY). After the ball dropped on New Years, I headed in a car to Atlanta!
Travel was my middle name during winter break. Atlanta welcomed us weary travelers with open arms as we headed to Day 1 of Passion Conference (there probably will be a few posts about this later as well). Passion was one of the best experiences of my life; being surrounded with 45,000 college students worshiping and praising God was an eye opening, once in a lifetime, experience. I was moved to actually take a stand for Justice becoming an active part in the movement of freeing the 27 million trapped in slavery today. The 4 days spent at Passion were, all in all, indescribable and life changing.
After one last worship session led by Chris Tomlin and the gang, some amazing people and I headed back on the road with our eyes focused on our final destination, Virginia. After a crazy, and semi-scary, experience through a teeny-tiny old Southern town just to find a Sonic and many gas stops later, we finally reached Ashburn, VA.
Ashburn was my home for my final 2 days of adventure. And, after a quick pit stop in DC and a delicious lunch with friends I headed back to an airport. I hopped on a plane a whopping 16 days after leaving for the DR with my family. Milwaukee bound I reflected on just how blessed I truly am in my life. Flying always provides me with the quiet time I need after a long vacation to revisit the places I have gone and the ways God worked in the situations I was placed in.
My travels were a whirlwind, but I would not have had it any other way. I got to experience a vast amount of God's beauty, both in scenery and in the way He moves in those I am surrounded with on a daily basis.
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