True North Graduation

         It's been seven months since my last blog post. A crazy seven months filled with God's Spirit and adventure and falling deeply in love with the abundant life I am finding when you surrender your heart to follow Jesus.
         The months leading up to my graduation from the True North program were indescribable. I went from spending three weeks in Costa Rica, to discovering methods of technology for the poor with a man from India, from learning in the urban context of Norristown, to worshipping with the disenfranchised of Williamsport.
        God has done nothing but awakened my soul to life, what life is supposed to feel and look like anyways. I'm not sure how many pages I could write trying to explain, summarize, and depict my journey this past year. So rather then bore you, I'll just save that for my journal, because I'm quite sure that I will be unpacking through this experience for years to come.
        Currently, I am spending my summer at Three Springs Ministries, currently as summer staff, serving as the photographer and videographer for this ministry. It looks a lot different around here without the other interns living life alongside of me. Today I jumped into a car with my True North director and another intern that is also serving at TSM this summer, and we ventured into Williamsport to seek out opportunities for our high school camp to serve. We found ourselves in the very place where God began awakening my heart to love people deeply, and to the place where my heart had been invested and tied to throughout my internship.
       "It's not that I'm afraid that rich Christians do not care about the poor, I'm afraid that they do not know the poor." Shane Claiborne wrote this in one of his books, but for all I know, it's what could have been written in my soul this year. Because I only used to care about the poor, but today when I stepped through the doors of Sojourner Truth Ministries, I saw not the disenfranchised or the poor, but I saw my friends. Something about that moment made me realize that Jesus had been working through it all, using these relationships to break the kingdom in to my soul.
        And this gives me hope. Hope for the things to come, but more so for the things of the now. "We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain."- Hebrews 6:19