The Last Term?!

This sketch is dedicated to my dear friend, Beth. I drew this about a year ago. However, the message is consistent with how I feel, despite difficulties. Praise the Lord!

Hey everybody! My-oh-my. It's true. Today marks the beginning of the last term of my first year...hope that's not too confusing. I'm almost a third of the way through Bethany. Weird. Postponing my studies for eight months was an odd decision to make, it's true. But hey, it's all a part of the unspeakably brilliant plan that the Lord has for this life. Who am I to argue, eh? Yup, that's right. I live in the north and I said "eh".

It's hard to believe I've been away from home for nine months. In some ways it feels like an eternity longer, and in others, far shorter. I miss my family and friends desperately. But the Lord has been sufficient for me, giving me more and more of Him as I lay down my life unashamedly. he's brought many new friends and dear ones into my life, many of whom have left and I may not see again. Walking this narrow road toward Jesus is a beautiful thing, though. We gladly put down personal preferences and comforts in order to make Him known to the world. He's worth it.

How can I describe the grace of the Lord? When I rebelled against Him in my heart, He sustained my breath and called to me, leading me into a place of quiet, His voice to hear. When comfortable I became in the routine of my life, where ease surrounded me and my spirit, so religious, in pious deeds fell asleep, He shook everything that could be shaken. I awoke to thunder. "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!" (Hebrews 10:31) When I was thrown at his feet as a sinner, when even my own fists clenched stones, ready to be cast, He raised me from the dirt, and justified me as I believed, and sanctified me as I followed Him, to "go, and sin no more." When He found me at the hem of His garment, needing Him, He healed me. I deserve nothing. I am worth nothing. I am born nothing. I will die nothing. But in His grace, He gave. In love He paid for me the most costly price. Into this world He brought me. Out of this world He will take me, someday. I know that I have been transformed. Even in this time here, as I have wrestled with sin, my flesh, my brokenness, as I've struggled with pride and fear and the lust of the world, and the temptations of gross, arrogant, false religion-- a mask of lies, the Lord has pulled me to His face, to His heart. In the glory, I cannot stand. yet, I dance. I cannot speak. But I sing. Truly, you shall not again meet the Katelyn you have known. The process of being saved is instant and constant. I am so thankful to my Lord. And yes, He is Lord.

Continue with me! I am so thankful for you who I love, my friends and family. God is good. I live in the hope that one day I will know fully what that means.