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As I sit here writing this blog post, I can’t help but be filled with gratitude. I went home this weekend for a wedding, and unfortunately got stuck here because Texas forgot it was a part of the south and was suddenly hit with a snowstorm that locked me up with my parents.

Our manager always asks us to describe our current state in one word.

This year is one for the books, a year I can’t wait to look back on and tell stories of “2020”.

2 Timothy 1:8

“Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God”

Change is hard. It’s something we’ve all been forced to face every day since the beginning of the pandemic.

If I could explain to the Summer of a year ago where I would be right now, I don’t think I would quite believe it.

It’s a very strange feeling to be in arguably the hardest year of my life, then for it to only get unexpectedly harder.

Psalm 34:1 “I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.”

Early on in the Fellowship, I found myself sitting in the top of an old barn faced with a simple, elementary question. My manager asked me “who is God to you?”

What is the Fellowship? What am I learning? What is my life right now?

This is my third attempt at writing this blog post.

We are all so different, but we are also so similar. We all came to the fellowship with different expectations, but we were all called by Christ to this small town in East Texas for the same purpose: to learn how to glorify God through service and to how to look more like Christ. Our pledge verse that we chose to live by for the year is Philippians 2:1-11 which states:

I’m currently sitting in a coffee shop in Colorado Springs staring off at the mountains in the distance as some tunes blast over the speakers debating what it is I want to write for my Legacy Fellow Blog post.

I am in the girls cabin on the side of a Colorado mountain about to head out to the crisp cold to start my work day. I have my backpack, check. Radio is here and on, check.

If you were to tell me a year ago that I would be living with thirteen other people in a small East Texas town working at a camp, I would have thought you were joking.

While working at camp and living on the side of a mountain, playing "what are the odds?" has become a common occurrence.

‘Is—is he a man?’ asked Lucy. 

In May of 2017 I flew from Atlanta to Texas for the first time.

“Jesus knew the Father had given everything into His hands, that He had come from God, and that He was going back to God. So He got up from supper, laid aside His robe, took a towel, and tied it around Himself.” John 13:3-4

There was once a great sculptor, his name was Zeno he was well renowned around the world for extravagant sculptures depicting people of high esteem.

The Fellowship is described as “a year-long refinement program designed to invest in the lives of recently graduated college students who desire to look more like Christ.”

I have lived in Westcliffe now for 6 months and during my stay here I’ve turned 23 years old; therefore, I thought it would be appropriate to share 23 things I’ve learned while living the ‘small town’ life: 

And being very tired and having nothing inside him, (Shasta) felt so sorry for himself that the tears rolled down his cheeks.

The fellowship has been such a blessing to me so far. Learning more about God and also learning how to live in community is something that I know I will always value.

Have you ever been in a place that seems far from literally everything? Well, I can now attest that I have. Welcome to the wilderness.

 5 months ago, I was leaving a place that had become home.

Coming into the Fellowship, I was considered to be the “quiet” fellow of the group of fourteen. I would not initiate any conversations with anyone and especially did not really care to get to know others, besides above the surface.

“The more time that I spend in The Spirit, with The Spirit, relying on, going to, and leaning into The Spirit, the more I realize how strong God is"

When we look at 2 Timothy 2:6, we can all agree Paul has charged us to work hard like a farmer.