Today I had the pleasure of meeting with Clint's pretty momma and that little Stu too. I met with Lynn to explain further what FOCUS is and what I'll be doing down in Flagstaff, as she is generous in joining my support team. We got to talking and she brought up this gem of a blog and here I am with a little time to spare so - what the hey. Let's write a blog!
I will be leaving Greeley on Thursday evening for the longest time I've spent away since I moved up as a freshman. Most people, from what I've gathered, have been beyond thrilled to jump ship but I can't say I feel the same. Greeley did a lot for me and it'll always have a little piece of my heart. Growing up in the Navy it is the longest place I've lived consecutively with a total of 6 years - yeah. Took me awhile. Oops. I did a lot here, like I said: I made a lot of friends, learned a lot of things, lived a lot of places, had a lot of roommates, had a lot of adventures, but most importantly and most substantially, I met the Lord here. I know, Greeley! Of all places! But isn't that the beauty of it? In one of the smelliest, most bizarre, laughable and (for some) miserable place in Colorado (besides maybe Alamosa, ha) God took ahold of my heart and I couldn't be happier.
The adventure to FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) has been everything you'd expect an adventure to be; exciting, joyous, HARD, confusing, sad, hilariously entertaining, dirty and any and all other adjectives you'd use to describe an adventure. I've been welcomed into all sorts of lives by people who find joy in the most obscure things, like coffee or sharpening knives in front of children to people who are OBSESSED with things like Harry Potter or Harry Styles and I would not have made the leap to FOCUS without a single one of them. You see, I'm not the craziest of people, not the holiest or the most awesome but for some reason people enjoy being my friend. To me, its simply by the grace of God. He has invited me time and time again to grow and be molded into a woman (which lets get real, has been quite the process), a woman who desires eternity.
He did it through people, people who were bold enough to let Him. So, here's to all of you, my sinful faithful. My new adventure is because of you. I love you and I thank you.
If you'd like to join my monthly support team (yeah, I raise my own salary and it's AWESOME!) visit: www.focus.org/goto/sarra
Or if you'd commit to praying for the students i'll be hanging out with at NAU send me your address and i'll send you my newsletter :)
