After narrowly avoiding a speeding ticket in Indiana, choosing to bypass the ever-intriguing History of Kentucky Fried Chicken Museum, and listening to every Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons song multiple times, I finally arrived on "The Porch" in Jonesville for training. For all of training I'll be surrounded by 14 other Lily Fellows who are just as excited and passionate about this mission work as I am. (sidebar: there should be 15 others, but more on that in another post..)
It's been exciting to see old friends from summer staff and to meet new ones and begin to share with them why the rest of us are all so crazy obsessed with ASP. My staff seems great and I really think we will get along well. I think I have a better idea of what I'll actually be doing for the whole year, but I'm pretty sure we're ALL still confused about what the "vocational discernment" part of our jobs is going to look like; still not certain if that's even a real thing.
I've been pretty nervous about this whole experience lately, but as I was driving and watching the Smokies fulfill their namesake as the fog settled around them, I became entirely more calm. This is an effect that these mountains often have on me--just the simple feeling that there are things bigger than my life, literally and spiritually.
I feel so blessed to be adding a year long adventure with ASP to my life, but mostly thrilled to NOT be going back to school tomorrow like lots of people I know. There will be a time for books and lectures again in my life, but I am so grateful for an opportunity to grow away from the university atmosphere.
"Be still and know that I am God." Psalms 46:10
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