Hello internet friends whom a lot of you I have never met before! I really would like to get to know all of you because I have always liked it when a blogger reaches out to their readers on a personal level. But I suppose to do that you have to know more about me and why I am here. My name is Kurstie, like Kirstie Alley but with a "u." I have just graduated high school and am soon off to my freshman year of college in August! I love school, theatre, reading, writing, friends and family, and most importantly God. I have always grown up in a loving christian home that would probably be considered perfect by many. Me and my life, however, are not perfect. I have faults, my family has fights, and there are days where I simply feel like being defiant to my parents and to God. I suppose that is kind of how I got here.
I have just gotten back from Falls Creek. For those who don't know Falls Creek is the main baptist youth camp for Oklahoma, and most of Texas and Arkansas, along with parts of Missouri and Kansas. It is also the largest youth gathering in the world with around 5,000 students being present every week during the summer! It is truly an amazing camp that has changed the lives of many including myself. This was my last year going to Falls Creek as a camper and it was not a disappointment by any means. God spoke to me a lot while there and one of the things I knew He was calling me to do was to start this blog.
I have felt led to start a blog for a while now, because there are so many things that I feel laid on my heart that I want to share, but not on social media. I'm probably one of only a few teenagers that doesn't enjoy social media for the drama and pointless tweets about how "summer has officially started because I got a snow cone!" No, I wanted something deeper and more intimate than social media, where people would only take it as me ranting and getting into arguments over something that I was truly sharing only out of love and what I felt God was leading me to share. That's when I knew a blog was the right thing that God was calling me to do. Well I felt that way eventually... At first I didn't want to do it because I didn't want to take the time, or I thought nobody would read it. Excuses really. However, I felt it very strongly confirmed while at Falls Creek after watching a video about how teenagers were changing lives through a blog that it was my turn to start one too. My only dilemma was I really had no idea what to call it. I was thinking about it for most of the week and realized that I just kept saying to myself that I just feel led to do this and I feel led to share, and that is when I knew that is what it should be called. So hear I am today hoping to share the love of God through these posts! I also am hoping to share my adventures as I plunge head first into college! (Seriously, I could not be more excited!) I hope you find encouragement and joy here along with truth and an awe for God. Everything I write, may it be from Him for Him.
Thank you all who are supporting me through this as I move on to the next chapter of my life. I seriously couldn't do this or anything else without you! May this blog be as successful as God desires it to be. More to come soon!
Much love,
Kurstie
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