whimsy...and a fun new update to my future

whimsy

a few years ago I read Donald Miller's book "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years"

and now am delighting my way through Bob Goff's "Love Does"

both talk extensively about whimsy.

whimsy: the idea that life could be magical; 

it could be special if we were only willing to take risks.

Bob says

"What whimsy means to me is a combination of the "do" part of faith 

along with doing something worth doing." 

I like that. 

whimsy to me has always evoked some sort of fairy-tale beauty,

princesses twirling in sparking dresses, and talking animals that come to the rescue. 

And I suppose a part of what we love about fairy tales is that

 things are not always what they seem. 

the frog or the beast is really a prince. 

or maybe that the impossible seems to be possible,

mulan takes on all of china with a cricket and wins,  ariel gets legs, 

or cinderella meets a fairy god-mother who turns a pumpkin into a carriage.
like weird things happen.  

and really, our favorite part is that the endings all close in the same way...

"and they lived happily ever after"

and they do, because the author says it's so. 

As as I was losing myself in the prettiness of "whimsy" 

I realized that this is exactly how we should live,

because the Bible is just one long book of whimsy. 

Nothing really is as it seems.

Jesus tells us that the first shall be last and the last will be first. 

and that he who gives his life away will really find it. 

and the impossible is always possible with Jesus.

the lame walk, the blind see, the leper is healed and begins to dance

and really, as believers our ending is always happily ever after forever and amen.

heaven, it's going to be JOY unending for all eternity! 

prayer is whimsy, 

because prayer causes things to happen that might not have happened if we didn't pray.
impossible things like cancer being healed, and addicts becoming sober, and girls being rescued from brothels. 

and you guys, WE GET TO LIVE LIKE THIS! 

we get to pray CRAZY things into being. 

and choose to invite God to move in powerful ways when we risk.

and when we risk, we get to see light come into the darkness.
and drive that blackness away. 

a few days ago we got to skype with our precious girls at the home we worked at in Nepal. 

it was all craziness and laughter and swapping stories. 

and when it was done Kevin and I sat there in AWE

that we got to be a part of this,

a part of watching God rescue and transform 5 little girls,

and bring them into the kingdom.

this whimsy that we got to live,
that was worth pouring every fiber of our being into.
it made me dance, like literally twirl with joy.

and now as we leave this week to begin a new chapter of our lives
 I'm excited to share with you
a new whimsy i'm moving myself into,
one I haven't shared on the blog yet.

And it is this,
I'm going back to get my masters in Counseling!!!!

God called me to this while in Nepal,
as I watched our counselors work with the girls there,
and the incredible transformation that took place as a result!

I'm excited and nervous,
but i'm so grateful for this call on my life because
like Bob echoes,

it will be a
"combination of the "do" part of faith
{standing with the broken in their suffering} 

along with doing something worth doing"
{watching people begin the healing process and break free!!}

I start school in January, and hope I can get my "school" brain back on again!
haha, it's been quite a few years since I flexed that muscle, haha!

Thank you for your sweet support in my life!
have a week full of whimsy friends,
love Katie