Start of the Journey

As I embark on my nine month journey with the C.S. Lewis Institute Fellows Program, I am filled with awe and excitement over the transformations God will bring through this experience.  I've been a follower of Christ as long as I could remember and can't link my conversion to a particular event, but He has taken me on a gradual path where His magnificent being and supreme authority have poured over my life time and time again.

Michael Wilkins could not have given a better description of my conversion story through his work, In His Image:

"Many people who grow up in Christian homes are not always aware of the beginning.  For many it comes in the natural course of their growth.  They may have turned to God in a moment not connected with a crisis event, so the experience of the awakening is not remembered consciously.  Their spiritual life was initiated by God more quietly in the secrecy of their inner person." (p.91)

As I begin to reexamine the path that was so wonderfully conceived in the secret place of my childhood, I now make the transition into this public platform to trace my walk with Him and to become more transparent and vulnerable before Him and His people.  My aim is not only to account for the awesome awakening that will ensue as a direct result of the program, but I also pray that He will allow me to use this journey to trace my entire life line in Him that began long ago and one that has sustained me over and over again.

I stand in great expectation that God will bring life-altering blessings and renewal to my life during the next nine months.  He will awaken parts of me that have been dormant and allow His hidden and unknown plans to come to pass.  He will restore my joy and turn my wailing into dancing.  He will remove my sackcloth and clothe me with joy.  He will position my heart to sing to Him and give thanks forever.

THIS will be so much greater than what I can envision and will far exceed beyond the program.