The Adventure

Happy 2012 everyone! :)

God is rocking my world, how about yours? If you say yes, great, if you say no, wake up, say yes to the call, revamp your life, cause God has some awesome plans for your life!

Well, my name is Heather, and I am a child of God. Years ago when my family started going to church when I was 5.  Little did I know back then I'd be shining God's glory across the states and traveling a little bit farther to a colder state.  Little did I know I'd be breaking chains of family history that go down in generations.  I did not know the strength God was about to give me and the difference I was going to make.

As I embark on my final semester in my Undergraduate at North Central University.  With my major being in Social Work, alongside a Biblical Studies Minor, I still realize I have no idea what God is about to use me for.  I thought I was working with teenagers, I work with homeless men, I minister through music the last two summers with outreaches.  I can tell you, God always has control and will use you in ways and will throw all of your gifts into a position, have you doing many different things, just wait and see!

I'm learning as I go through the normal controlling/instant gratification phase that now I see what God does to us.  He trains us to be different, longing for difference.

Ah patience is a virtue as I have been revamping my resume, applying on websites, wondering whats to come after May 4, 2012, I realize something.  That's I don't know what, where, or when I am going to go. Will I go far, will I go near, will I help the homeless, will I help infants? Will I meet someone? Will I be away from all my close college friends?

So many questions. One answer. Let Go, Let God.

So many times I hold on to things, and believe me God shakes everything and takes you on a journey that is way better than anything you were ever planning.

As I go through this semester, living in an apartment with time to spend with the best friends I have at school, I don't think about the unknowns, there is always so many things we won't know, we just take a step at a time, take a risk, take a chance with God's heart leading us every step of the way!

This semester is going to be focused on learning more at my internship through the Salvation Army Harbor Light Homeless Shelter within Second Floor Men's Housing Case Work.  Trying to be the best I can be and figure things out in the system and understand how to do the basics.

Then I am going to be celebrating my last period of time living in close proximity to some of my best friends in life and treasuring every moment we can get this last semester.

To work hard, go hard, and never look back, but go forward with confidence, God confidence that will never fail you, but always in the end make sense and bless your life, along with others!

My goal this semester is to give my all, nothing less, enjoy the time, learn, live, be the daughter of God that He wants me to be.  I hope as I go through this semester I can reflect God's glory to my friends, my co-workers at Target, my residents and co-workers at Salvation Army so that I could make a difference and not get swept up in anything that would take me down.

To live in the freedom means to live, breathe, and sleep in the peace of God.  Every DAY!

I am blessed to be in a relationship with a God who loves me in the midst of many things going on but yet He preserved my life so that I might shine for Him.

We are the light of this world, let it shine, shine bright...

- Heather Cheryl Craig