Mysteries

I didn't intend on having this blog be all about my views on faith, but a lot of my thoughts are tied together and it makes up so much of who I am, that I can't help but have it show through my writing.

A year ago I was sitting in the same kind of place I am now. In an airline-like seat, listening to a road trip playlist, while surrounded by nearly 100 of my peers making our way around the country. The New G summer tour. I was so excited to be going for the first time last July. I had paid every penny myself of the $700 required to go and received another $350 for food and other things from a scholarship they offer to kids who need a little extra help.
That year we were headed to New York City, a placed I'd only dreamed of being able to go to someday. The anticipation grew, and finally the day to leave had come. I had thought so much of the fun things I'd see and places we would go that I had forgotten the reason of our mission: To praise God and spread his word through song. I wish I had stuck to this more closely, but if I've learned anything over the years, it's to not dwell on the past and what I cannot change.
Now, a year later, I sit on a Heartland bus identical to ones from last tour, and think through what all has happened in the past two days, and also in the past several months, and how my life could never be the same. A deeper faith, a wider outlook on the future, and a love so strong when I think of it you could knock me over with a feather.
God works in mysterious ways for sure. And he definitely knows what he's doing.