So these past few weeks have been incredible. The amount of blessings that I have received have been incredible. I feel so blessed and at the same time, cannot help but think of those who at the same exact time as myself have been going through troubles or haven't felt as blessed. I urge everyone to read this to pray for those people.
So the story starts out about two weeks ago while I was caddying. I had just gotten back from the best month of my life as I have told you about before and I had no idea how going back to work was going to be. I was blown away. I met this guy, Mark, the first day back and we hit it off immediately. He was very familiar with Young Life and I was able to tell him about my month and everything it was incredible. I was able to talk with him about having a faith in the business world and more so just about life for the entire round of golf. The next two days of work also involve people who truly inspired me. One of which worked in micro-finance and I was truly blown away by the work he was able to do for people, A LA a possible career?
Now possibly the best thing that happened this summer:
I was heading over to my friend Dan's house on one of the last nights of summer. We are always known to talk about adventurous things and ponder what it would be like to actually do it, although a little ambitious, we never really follow through so we decide we needed some inspiration. Who else better to find the inspiration from then Bob Goff himself. Dan and myself have read a plethora of articles and books about Bob, also following his twitter and blog which is absolutely incredible. He is the American consulate to Uganda, founder of Goff&Dewalt law firm, and founder of Restore International, which is a justice fighting Non-profit law firm that tries cases of human trafficking and other injustices in Uganda and India. He also has appeared on 60 minutes to talk about his work. So I decided to e-mail him. I just sent a little thing asking for some advice or some sort of challenge or inspiration to go out and do something and what I got was overwhelming. He set up a phone interview with me two days later to just talk about life.
I had no idea what was going on, I was actually talking with the American consulate for Uganda? He was incredibly inspiring and I took to heart every word he spoke to me. In short, "Go be awesome," was the theme from him, he told me to "Go be awesome," over and over again and his challenge to me was to go overseas twice this year, and the following two years to get some ideas for non-profits and to love and serve on people. Literally just to go, not with some specific organization, but simply just to go. Quite the challenge, so now I have truly looked for whimsical opportunities to serve and love on people and what do you know, an opportunity came up within two days of being at school.
A group of three film makers called me and wanted to use the student group some friends and I created last year to make pancakes and raise money for poverty. The call themselves, The Maine Boys, and turned a school bus into an RV/mobile apartment so they could travel the country on what they call, "An Adventure for Good." They travel the country setting up fundraisers and serving and loving on people and document everything, it is truly incredible. So yesterday, my friends and I used our student group, "Pancakes for Poverty," to basically drive around campus selling pancakes to people to raise money for poverty! The day totaled $95 to the fight against poverty. Truly a blessing.
Call these stories all coincidence, but I know in my heart that these are blessings poured out from the Lord and my prayer is that he continues use me as well as everyone else to work for his mission! Look for those opportunities to love and serve people, there's nothing else we should be doing!
