Monday, 08 December 2008

• Future Plans

  I've started to write at another blogging platform: http://mrkevanlin.wordpress.com Come join me over there if you're a Google Reader fan or a wordpress fanatic. I'll write another post on why I like it better than Xanga. In the meanwhile, he's the latest post from my other blog.
  
  On December 14, 2008, I will have graduated from college. Scary thought. Exciting times. When my health insurance decides to drop me on that day, I will be joining with the thousands if not millions of people in America that don’t have health insurance. In a way, I’m not worried, as my ultimate insurance plan comes from God. When Paul made his three missions trips to various places back in the day, you think he had health insurance? Don’t think so. I’ll be fine.
  
  so what will I be doing with my life? That seems to be the only question that I’ve been getting these days. The pattern goes as such; ‘congratulations on your graduation, its been awhile hasn’t it? I’m so proud of you and your accomplishment, what will you be doing?’
  
  I want to make it fun and tell different people different things. Or maybe today I’ll say “I’m going to be a firefighter” and tomorrow I’ll say “I’m planning on climbing Mt. Everest.” I’m sure those responses are going to be hilarious.
  
  But instead of being coy and deflective, I have given it some serious thought, and more importantly some serious prayer. Everybody wants to know what their purpose in life is, which is connected to the Will of God for my life, which in turn is actually my plan for life too. More importantly, knowing God’s will for my life is actually one and the same with knowing who God is to begin with (Romans 12). So where do I begin? Pray. Read the Bible. All great places to start. But where do you go from there?
  
  A constant thought I’ve always had was this: How can my passions and gifts be aligned with God’s will for my life so that a. I can glorify my Father and b. so that I might be content in doing so. Well now that time has passed ever since I’ve asked this question (well over 3 years now) I feel like God has finally started to reveal Himself to me (or maybe He has been and I just missed all the communique (it’s possible!)).
  
  Recently, I’ve been asked to join a team that will be traveling to Kenya to run a soccer camp for the youth and an orphanage, and to try to purchase a soccer ball for every orphan and youth there. Along with doing this we will be seeing if we can set up something long term with this village/town. There are so many things associated with fundraising for this trip, but more than that I’ve been gifted in being able to see that this simple trip has incredible potential for so much more. Local soccer tournaments that will help fundraise for this trip/cause, a video documentary of the whole trip, photography, and even local schools or businesses that will want to participate in this. It’s about doing something good in this world, and banding people together to do it. But more importantly, it’s about doing it through the outpouring of God’s love. Even though this might be a “secularized” thing, God is in the midst of it. He’ll make the opportunities known to us and it’ll be our job to respond.
  
  I’ll leave you with that today, and I’ll be writing about the process as it unfolds. Thanks for reading, be blessed today.
  

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