I don’t ever plan on having a real job…

It’s been a while, I’m sorry! I’ve been super busy down here in my second home!

I have a wicked imagination, if you know me, you know that could be an understatement. My brain has the retention of a goldfish I think. I am constantly looking for new ideas and places to go. This summer has very much changed my opinions on life, work, and travel. Mom and Dad, I’m sorry that the whole summer internship/class/job thing isn’t what I look for.

Most kids my age are starting to act like adults, boooooooooo. Here’s the thing, I’ve got literally my whole life to be a grown up. I want to work and have a job but I just want to do it in different countries where my salary may look a little different and involve food and a bed. God has blessed me with an amazing family that’s nothing but supportive of my want to do mission work and a girlfriend that is willing to FaceTime me from around the world.

Money is important and doing well in school is important and doing stuff to gain connections in the “business world” is important. It may be that I’m naive but that stuff just isn’t at the top of my priority list. I have began to scratch the surface of idea that relationships and following God’s plan is more important.

I believe that God has called me to a life in missions in some capacity. I don’t really know what He wants but I know it’s not sitting at a desk selling things to people and wearing a tie and looking at a screen from 9-5 everyday. I want to do what God wants and I think that is to make relationships and learn from people who have less material things. From what I’ve learned from the people here in Nicaragua family, friends and relationships are what make you rich.

That being said I’ve spent the better part of this summer thinking about what that is going to look like next summer. I just have an itch to go to some remote jungle and hang out with people. I have no idea how that is going to happen but I am looking and praying. (If anyone knows an non-profit Christian organizations around the world that will feed me and put me in a bed in exchange for work hmu.)

I think that while living out what the Lord wants, you never work. It may feel like work sometimes when it gets hard or uncomfortable but that usually only lasts for a little bit. When you slow down and see Jesus working in people the feeling of work disappears and the feeling of living, truly living comes.

When I say I don’t want to be a grown up I don’t mean that I don’t want responsibility or a family or to be mature. I think you can have all the benefits of being an adult while having the faith and excitement of a child. I want to glorify God and I don’t think that making myself unhappy by doing something I don’t want to do is glorifying God.

I was so inspired to hear that Francis Chan left his church, comfort bubble, and home to follow was God was calling him to do. He packed up and moved to Asia to be a missionary. Just like that, his life changed and I’m sure a lot of people didn’t understand what he was doing but he must have had the faith of a child and the adventurous spirit of a kid to do that.

This is kind of all random and not very organized or whatever but that goes to show that my mind is a little off. To sum it up, I want to live out God’s plan for me by loving people and loving Him. Right now, I feel that to do that my life may look a little different than most kids my age. I have nothing against money, business success, or 401K’s, I just don’t think that’s the life that God has planned for me.

Much love, can’t wait to be back in the States and see everyone (except I kinda can wait lol),

For real though, Love God Love People.

B-Rad