"Sit down. I'm about to tell you something that is going to change your life."
These were the words a friend said to me during the first week of the Life Action Summit at our church. But first, let me back up a few months...
During my last semester on Appalachian's campus, I began to tell God that I wanted to fully surrender my plans to him. I did not understand at the time the true extent of my dreams and rights that would have to be laid down in order for this to come about in my life. Even so, I spent many nights in tears as God began breaking me of my own plans and decisions. I know now those tears were only the beginning expressions of the joy I would experience as I walked in freedom of finally saying "Yes, God, I will."
Before I knew it, I was moving home to student teach. Honestly, leaving the mountains and the community I knew in Boone was not my first choice, but I began to watch and feel God change my heart. I never could foresee the precious conversations and moments I would take part in with my parents, especially in dealing with my Dad's health.
And of course, woven into the intricate details of this semester was this conversation that has changed the rythym of God's song for me just a bit.
I had just mentioned my Spanish Education degree when my friend said, "Sit down. I'm about to tell you something that is going to change your life." Having never heard of the Network for International Christian Schools before, I listened to an hour of Zach striving to convince me that God had planned this for me.
Laughing on the way home, I told God I would do it, just as I would stay open to the three other options I felt had opened up. After a morning of listening to my Dad tell me to stay open and pray, I went to school only to encounter another student teacher, Rachel, with a brochure in her hand. "Rebecca, I thought you might be interested in working overseas with this program so I brought you a brochure." Yes, this was the same program I had heard of the night before...and God had my full attention.
The rest of that week included the whirlwind of an application, a phone call with the recruiter whom Zach had speed dialed into his phone, and a job offer as the ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher for at least two years in Bolivia.
I leave in July to begin dancing with the Lord to a new song full of new desires and prayers which the Lord is nestling deep into my heart. And during these next few weeks and months, as I grow weary or distracted, my prayer is that I will be still and listen...to His harmony's song.
