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| Everything I need on my back and my future behind that door!! |
Man life is hard to figure out sometimes isn't it? But just when I think I've been out-smarted by my circumstance, Jesus will come through, figure it out, teach me something cool, and without having to try super hard in my own efforts I'll find myself in a sacred place where passions, talents, and dreams collide together and I'm swept away into another adventure. This is where I find myself now. Writing to you from the Black Bear Coffee Shop in Northern Alaska, Denali territory!
After 4 months of working a job that lead me into financial and worldly stability, while simultaneously dying down my passions and dreams, I decided to start looking for a journey. My potential and talents weren't being tapped into at all and if there is one thing I have learned about this life, you get out of it what you put into it. My biggest fear is a wasted life, I want to live, really live until Jesus decides I should come home. I don't want you to misunderstand, this is the course of my life, your purpose could very well consist of a more mainstream courrier and if so go for it, I'm only speaking for myself. Once you get the fact that you don't have to work to make God love you or accept you any more, your freed up to just chase whatever passion and love He has put on your heart!
So here's the lesson, here's the key that unlocked this next chapter of my life.... After 4 months of applying all over the place, from missions in the jungles of Peru to white water rafting in Colorado..
every single door slammed shut! I was trying with all my might and nothing was working out. I felt defeat and failure creeping up on me and finally was forced into a spot of realizing that God would work things out. One day soon after I was playing ultimate frisbee, had a 2 second convo with a friend about a cool job in Alaska, went home and applied for THE WRONG ONE and within 2 days the boss called saying I applied THE VERY DAY someone else dropped out. He told me I was welcome to come and work as AN ATV(4 wheeler) GUIDE IN ALASKA...that is, if I could show up in a little under 2 weeks!
I prayed for confirmation which happened for me in an equally cool way, I had a $400 flight voucher for Alaskan Airlines that I lost 6 months earlier and expired. I called the airlines and somehow they found it in 2 minutes and reopened it for me!
I quit my job, bought a ticket, went for one last road trip, and took off into the wild!!!!! I feel deeply that I am right in God's will, doing what I'm meant to do, deep in his most majestic creation, and playing around on an atv in the wilderness everyday!!! I encourage you to embrace life! Take risks! Do what you love to do! More to come...
"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
- Jack London
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| Looking into my new back yard :-) |
Hello Casey,
ReplyDeleteman i noticed this post and wow! i only noticed it because I was about to blog and stuff, which is just a little way of saying God's timing!
It so happens I came on here to share what God just put on my heart. Your story is melting me. God bless you for your obedience you have great reward before God!
Oh mi gosh! I catch that wind of grace that you're on! time to travel baby!
I'll share what he put on my heart for you too:
"You only get one chance to live, and then it's over, you'll be before the judgment seat of Christ, and he's only rewarding you for what you DO" I'm not talking about the others who don't even have hope, i'm talking about the ones that do know Christ and have hope, they're the ones this fearful seat of judgment is for - not to live as though you get a second chance!