Let the Blogging Begin!

Hi friends! I've been captivated by the blogs of others and so, I've decided to start my own. I am so excited to share my heart with all of you! Mostly, this blog will let you walk with me through my journey of faith, following God's will, and everything college and dentistry-like! In the fall, I'll be going to Seattle Pacific University to major in Biochemistry with a "pre-dentistry focus". And in the far future (we're talking ten to twelve years of school, people) I'll hopefully be an oral surgeon, with the knowledge and passion to repair the mouths of kids with clefts in countries where the resources and money are not available. My heart has been in this since I was little and experienced surgery after surgery for my cleft lip and palate (I've had somewhere around 20 surgeries). I cannot wait to pass on this healing to others and bring with it, the spiritual healing of Christ.

I ran across 2 Corinthians 5:16-19 in my devotions last night and though I've heard this verse many times before, it hit me in a new way. The verse says:

"So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting the men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation."

I want to see God's beauty in the children with clefts; kids that are regarded by the world (especially in third world countries) as ugly and messed up. I want to reconcile these children to Christ. I want to reconcile them to their communities and families. In their healing, I pray that they will turn to Christ and become a new creation in Him. I love Jesus, I love the beauty that is found in each of us through Him, and I want the world to see that beauty.