Now that we are all back into our home towns--or rather our designated college towns--we come to try and find the answer to the biggest question of all--What Happens Now?
For me this was a very daunting question and a very daunting thought to have to think about. I had absolutely no idea what I was supposed to do now that I was home and I certainly had no idea where to start finding out what I supposed to be doing. The only logical thing for me to do was to just wait and see how things went once I moved back to Brownwood, which is where I would be spending all of my time. Immediately after coming home from the trip I told myself that I wasn't ever going to be eating fast food again. I could not go back to eating food that I had no idea where it came from and could definitely not eat any kinda of fast food after seeing Food Inc. This was the one and only thing that I knew I was doing at the time that dealt with what I had experienced since being home. I desperately wanted to be something and with the things I had learned but I was so overwhelmed with it all, that the only thing I could do was to focus on the one thing that I took away and wait for God to show me how to use what I had learned. And sure enough as soon as school got started He opened quite a few doors for me and several different options as to what I could be doing with my new found knowledge of hunger and its effects on Texans.
For me this was a very daunting question and a very daunting thought to have to think about. I had absolutely no idea what I was supposed to do now that I was home and I certainly had no idea where to start finding out what I supposed to be doing. The only logical thing for me to do was to just wait and see how things went once I moved back to Brownwood, which is where I would be spending all of my time. Immediately after coming home from the trip I told myself that I wasn't ever going to be eating fast food again. I could not go back to eating food that I had no idea where it came from and could definitely not eat any kinda of fast food after seeing Food Inc. This was the one and only thing that I knew I was doing at the time that dealt with what I had experienced since being home. I desperately wanted to be something and with the things I had learned but I was so overwhelmed with it all, that the only thing I could do was to focus on the one thing that I took away and wait for God to show me how to use what I had learned. And sure enough as soon as school got started He opened quite a few doors for me and several different options as to what I could be doing with my new found knowledge of hunger and its effects on Texans.
As with most summer vacations and trips we take during the summer, as soon as you get home everyone wants to know what you did during the summer. This was my first way of sharing what God had showed me over the summer. I talked with many different people and shared with them my stories on why I didn't eat at fast food restaurants anymore and why I only bought organic food. A few weeks passed and soon enough God opened up another door. I was asked by my college minister if I wanted to join him and the other three interns at our college ministry and become an intern myself. I was ecstatic that he asked me this and accepted his invitation. I would have a lot to share with how people could get involved from my experiences with community gardens and food banks. Then to top it all off Kate Blackshear -who was mentions in our earlier posts (she's my BSM leader at HPU)- asked if I would come onto the servant leadership team and help head off a group that would be working with Keep Brownwood Beautiful finding volunteers to, as the name says, Keep Brownwood Beautiful. We had met with Cary who heads up this organization on our way to Lubbock( on our trip) and it was by God's planning that this is all coming together now. Hopefully I will be able to get students here at HPU to want and desire to know more about gardening and what's happening with our community garden and produce an awareness about hunger, on our campus here. It's a rather exciting and yet daunting task to be asked to help with but I am so excited about where God is leading me this semester. So many doors have been opened and I can't wait to see what's on the other side of everyone of them.
So that is just a simple (and slightly long) update on where I, Dani, am at currently with the, After of all this amazing journey that we have been on since the start of July!
Peace out all
-Dani :-)
