Sleepless in Seattle

    Everytime I think of Seattle, the title of the movie Sleepless in Seattle comes to mind so I thought it would be fitting for this post. I have not blogged in a long, long time. I've just been busy with life, and honestly just haven't made time for it. I've also been on my never ending journey of finding, and creating myself. I've been learning a lot lately. I'm a month into my summer break, and I've just really been enjoying making money, and seeing my high school friends, BUT this post isn't suppose to be me rambling. This post is me introducing you guys to my first post (of hopefully many) about my adventure in Seattle, which begins TOMORROW!!!!!GORIHADNLKLAKSLDMLAL AHHHHH (excitement)!!!!!
     I will be participating in the Summer in the City/Prison Ministry summer project for 4 weeks in Seattle, WA which includes a Department of Corrections internship. EEEEKKK!!! I'm sooo excited for all the things we will get to do. I'll be updating my blog frequently on what I'll be doing. I'm really excited to work with the poor, and cast down people of Seattle. I'm in love with being a Social Work major, and I'm hoping that this experience will open my eyes to things that I might do with the rest of my life. I really excited to meet some amazing people, and grow in my relationship with God as well. I think the idea of ministry in a prison is UNBELIEVABLE, and I'm so excited to be a part of it!! Going into the prisons, and working with the kind of people I will be working with reminds me of why I've chosen social work as my career. My heart for people in prisons stems from Luke 5:31-32:

And Jesus answered and said to them, “It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. ³² I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

I can't wait to spend my life helping those who are burdened, judged, cast-down, and are looked at as the "outsiders". Jesus came for those people, and it is my life mission to do the same. In my next post I will be IN SEATTLE!!! CAN'T WAIT!!!!