Nearly four years ago, on a cool, misty day in a forest outside of Pittsburg, a friend approached me with something a little odd. You see, it was a Sunday of my first summer with Southwestern Advantage, the crazy, character-building, book thing. Every Sunday our whole team gathered and started our meeting with worship. This was also the time when the song Oceans by Hillsong came out, and after a long hard week and with the sweet yet powerful voices of the Elle and Anne, it just hit right down to your core. It was during this time that a fellow co-worker, whom I only knew on the surface, approached me with hesitation. Emily Phillips told me that God is always talking to us, and she believed He had something to tell me. She said that God thinks that I’m doing good things right now, really good things, but that He has GREAT things instore, much bigger than what I could even fathom.
That was nearly four years ago. Last week Miss Emily Phillips, along with 4 other incredible ‘bookpeople’ followed God’s crazy mission and came all the way to Nicaragua to visit me, the ‘missionary’. At the end of their stay Emily and I made our way out to the village where I have my weekly life group. As the sun went down the power suddenly went out and we were left in the church reading our bibles by the flicker of a single candle. The girls wanted to close our time together with a song, one they chosen before-Oceans, them in Spanish and us in English. There in the darkness in the middle of nowhere Nicaragua, I sat across Emily singing our song once again.