God has been so good to me. There is so much I can say that I learned on this trip that is soon coming to an end. I want to share what I posted a few weeks ago on instagram.

“I wrote my 1st blog called “Time to Surrender” almost 550 days ago. Those are a lot of days… the process of leaving on this 11 month trip, living through it, and getting to the end of it… is crazy. 

I’ve intensely learned what it looks like to live in surrender. I’ve grown stronger. For me, surrender is to live in the overflow.

This involves allowing God to enter into your innermost parts. It’s not about performance//doing all these things to earn love, but instead, it’s allowing God to relentlessly overflow your inner being— to strengthen it (Eph 3:16) with His love. 

What He has to impart is rooted in Love. He is Love. 

Surrender is accepting the victory, not defeat. Everything is gained on my knees, and everything I wasn’t meant to carry, naturally falls away: 

S u r r e n d e r

It isn’t giving up, but giving in to His overflow. 

Surrender is living in the overflow of God and receiving it daily.

It is laying at His feet because you know it’s the best place to be.

This isn’t a pessimistic, whiney, hopeless posture. Surrender is where the overflow happens. It’s where the victory is found and experienced.

Surrender: to live in the overflow, and oh wow, there is true strength in that type of surrender.”

what has truly changed my life? 
God. He’s been so good to me, and He led me to go on the World Race. He has used this ministry to strengthen me. He could have had me stay in my hometown, go to a different mission trip, or something else. It was in His plans to work in my heart and grow closer to Him through this trip. In God allowing me to go on this journey, He asked me to leave all I knew in October 2020. He’s done an incredible work, and I’m thankful for how His great work in my life. I really love Him, and I He’s continued to show me how great His love is for me.

with much love, and a few more blogs coming,

J <3