oh my heavens

be forewarned: this has the potential to be a really long story...

so it all starts saturday, march 21 around 11:45 pm when i'm reading and praying and the Lord asks me to think hard about my summer plans. at this point, i'm 100% going home to bluffton and working at Outside Hilton Head, like three other summers before. for some reason i got this complete unrest about it...so that got me thinking.

i started to think what the ideal summer would look like. i made this (silly) plan to just travel and paint and take photos and try to sell my work. (which might still happen, just not in the way i thought.) so anyways i'm totally sold on this plan because it screams freedom and life. the only problem is that i need a way to make some real money.

i meditate and pray about summer plans for a few days and am starting to get nervous when i get a voicemail from laura westby on tuesday. this might be the most exciting message i've ever received. i listen to it a couple times just to process what she is saying. something along the lines of "i babysit for this couple who is planting a church in summerville because of a vision the wife got and they need a children's minister who is very into creativity and i told them about you and they want to meet you."

so i call her back, do some listening (and some squealing according to laura...) and decide that i want to meet them. so we make plans for me to drive down for dinner on saturday.

turns out these people are total ballers. they went to toronto airport school of ministry and flippin KNOW the Holy Spirit. so we eat dinner, talk a little about a bunch of stuff like why i feel called to ministry (a really cool story), what kind of things i'm into, how i got interested in kids + art, etc...then laura and i decide to go to their church service in the morning. they got excited and decided to have their ministry team do prophetic ministry with us, and laura got nervous because she's never gotten prophesied over. so they were like "oh, well we'll do a trial run right now and you can get a feel for it."

this turned out exceptionally well. both laura and i were totally touched, encouraged, edified, etc and went back to some of the most restful sleep either of us has ever had. then we go to the church in the morning and it's SO LEGIT!!! great worship, great message, and then we got more prophetic ministry! (with different people who happened to say some of the same things as the night before...totally resonated) as austin would say, it was "sweet conf".

so long story short, i'm going to be in charleston regardless of whether or not i get the internship and i know where i'm going to live and i have a friend trying to find me a nannying job to make some money. the Lord is so faithful! all we have to do is follow Him and PERFECT plans fall out of seemingly nowhere...