Where to keep your faith and serve?

In the past few weeks, a few things have come up. God has been scratching the surface of my heart in ways I have never seen. He’s allowed people in my life that let me embraced them in ways I’ve never expected. My faith in Jesus, is in a place that isin’t in a roller coaster not going for a ride all over like usual in a locket. 

Instead, God has allowed me to embrace my faith with people by serving. Today, Hunter Wilder asked the Prep team at lunch, “So, why did you decide to join the prep team?” We all replied with our answerers. And we all had different answers. I thought about mine, I kind of mumbled mine out and was unsure of what to say because I didn’t want to say what mine was. But truth was, I eventually later admitted, I wanted a place to serve in the church. The Deaf Ministry didn’t really have a place, and perhaps the Prep team was a good starting place until I found my niche. 

After reading the Introverts in the Church by Adam McHugh (an awesome book by the way), I realized that I definitely had a place in the church and didn’t need to waste my time standing around waiting for someone to come and find me to serve. I had to do it myself. 

This wasn’t an easy task, I had to pray and ask God where to go. I asked around. Should I work with kids, should I work in communications, should I work… finally, I met my match in preps for awhile. I figured why not here for awhile and see where it takes me?

I’ve met people like Karina and quite a few other people who have certainly blessed me in friendship and love. Who have made me feel like family. I’ve become involved in volunteering, getting to know more people through them and getting to know more about Jesus. I couldn’t ask for more. This has been a great year to growth. 

Thoughts on God’s presence:

As for my feelings about dancing in the church, I had learned that it’s ok to feel God’s presence both still and loud. It didn’t matter if you were extroverted or introverted. Being someone’s who’s struggled with health issues, I can’t keep up with certain things as much as I’d like to and sometimes stand in the back and stand in the stillness of God’s presence during worship, other times, I dance in God’s presence like it says we should in Psalms.  

 

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