Inspiration

I have been wanting to create a blog for a very long time. This week I watched 3 of my very good friends hop on a plane and fly to Gabon, Africa for a 3 month internship. They have all created blogs so we could keep track of them and to hear about what God is doing. So... I decided it was finally time for me to create my own blog so that others can read what God is doing in my life as well. Although I am not going to be oversees this summer, God is still working in my life and I want other people to know. God calls us to public recognition of what He is doing in our lives and that is exactly what I want to do.

It's pretty simple: I am a 20-year-old college student and I love Jesus with all of my heart. I go to Lancaster Bible College where I am studying to be a professional mental health counselor. I absolutely love being able to go to class everyday and learning more about the God who has created the human mind; a God who can redeem even the most hurting and dysfunctional person. I am using my education and my heart for the hurting this summer by working at a summer camp run by Philhaven (a mental health hospital). I am so very excited but so very nervous... I do not have very much experience!

Before ending this post... I thought I should explain my blog title: Lilies and Sparrows. It comes from one of my favorite passages from the Bible:

Matthew 6:25-34

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour of his life?

And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

I have an amazing God and I want to share Him with others. So enjoy my blog!! Thanks for reading!!

Kelly