really cool times.
I am really excited about life right now.
I am eighteen years old and working part time at a taco restaurant, where we listen to the "Build Me Up Buttercup" radio station on Pandora and help our (mostly elderly female) customers.
I've grown up in Utah. I was born here, and I'll probably die here. The brief moments I've spent anywhere else have felt like getting a glimpse into another plane of existence. Utah is the only place I've ever called home. Utah is my whole world.
And now my world is expanding.
I have friends on nearly every continent - friends in Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa. I have friends in every corner of this big world declaring to all men that Jesus Christ is Savior. I'm becoming aware of the lives lived outside my beloved "bubble" that is Utah Valley. I'm becoming more aware that so many good men and women in the world don't understand what I've been taught since my infancy - that their Maker and Creator lives and loves them more than they could ever know. So aware, in fact, that I have received my own call to serve.
I'm gonna leave the house I've lived in for sixteen years. I'm gonna move across the country with strangers and live among them for a whole year and a half.
If anyone had asked me to tell them about South Carolina before this, I probably would have said that all I know about it is that it's under North Carolina. Now I can tell you it was the first of the states to secede from the Union. It has its own legend of a water monster like Loch Ness. It's famous for old buildings. It's the top producer of peaches east of the Mississippi (so eat that Georgia). It's humid but it can be cold too, 28% of the people there are African-American (a big change from Utah's 1.8%), and the oldest living tree on the East Coast, Angel's Oak, lives there. I'm in love with this place already, and I feel like my already overlarge heart is expanding to include the people there as well.
What a lovely world we live in. It's so exciting to me that I can live at this time, where it's entirely possible for me to discover it all.
I am eighteen years old and working part time at a taco restaurant, where we listen to the "Build Me Up Buttercup" radio station on Pandora and help our (mostly elderly female) customers.
I've grown up in Utah. I was born here, and I'll probably die here. The brief moments I've spent anywhere else have felt like getting a glimpse into another plane of existence. Utah is the only place I've ever called home. Utah is my whole world.
And now my world is expanding.
I have friends on nearly every continent - friends in Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa. I have friends in every corner of this big world declaring to all men that Jesus Christ is Savior. I'm becoming aware of the lives lived outside my beloved "bubble" that is Utah Valley. I'm becoming more aware that so many good men and women in the world don't understand what I've been taught since my infancy - that their Maker and Creator lives and loves them more than they could ever know. So aware, in fact, that I have received my own call to serve.
I'm gonna leave the house I've lived in for sixteen years. I'm gonna move across the country with strangers and live among them for a whole year and a half.
If anyone had asked me to tell them about South Carolina before this, I probably would have said that all I know about it is that it's under North Carolina. Now I can tell you it was the first of the states to secede from the Union. It has its own legend of a water monster like Loch Ness. It's famous for old buildings. It's the top producer of peaches east of the Mississippi (so eat that Georgia). It's humid but it can be cold too, 28% of the people there are African-American (a big change from Utah's 1.8%), and the oldest living tree on the East Coast, Angel's Oak, lives there. I'm in love with this place already, and I feel like my already overlarge heart is expanding to include the people there as well.
What a lovely world we live in. It's so exciting to me that I can live at this time, where it's entirely possible for me to discover it all.
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