When I look at myself now, I know God has moved in my life this past summer. When I try to pinpoint exactly how, when, or even in what ways that has happened, it’s nearly impossible. Going into this summer I thought there would maybe be one person, one time, or one event that really hit me hard, but that never happened. For awhile, it disappointed me that this wasn’t happening. However, now it is clear to me that God works in small ways, slowly chipping away at me all summer to get me to where I am now.
Thinking about the people God has used to mold me this summer, there are countless. I expected to be impacted by the people I served and I definitely was. What I didn’t expect was to be blown away by the people I served with. Living in community with seven others helped me grow in my faith more than I could ever have imagined. Sharing lives and seeing God’s love in each and every one of them was such a blessing this summer. Besides the missionaries, there were random, or not so random, people God placed along the way. Sometimes I would find myself serving with these amazing people or sometimes it was just a single conversation with them that would open my eyes to something brand new.
Some people can tell one story about a time God really moved in their life. I don’t have one big story. I have a lot of little stories that somehow add up to something big. I can’t even say which little stories to include because I’m still discovering which ones they are and I will probably never know all of them. I’m sure God used every person I spoke with, child I helped, and door I knocked on in some way I’ll probably never know.
Through all these people and events in the past 8 weeks, I know God has changed my life, although I have no idea in what way. I only know that He has. I’m sure we can never fully grasp the ways God is working in our lives. We just have to trust that He is.
Like the underside of a beautiful tapestry (threads hanging, knots), we know that if we entrust all of this to God, God weaves it into something beautiful whose pattern we will only see fully in the next life.
Doing the Catholic Urban Project this summer has been a huge grace and I thank every person who has supported in any way!
God bless!
Danielle
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