M.A.D. Grad!!! WOOOO!

It is official!! I made it! From the first week of October all the way through to the first week of May I have been studying Dance at Brisbane Australia’s YWAM base. I took part in a 6 ½ months long DTS (Discipleship Training School) because God led me to do it and even though I went through struggles and doubts and hardship, it has been the most life changing and incredible growing experience of my life. Right from the beginning of DTS I knew my life was blessed and I knew I had a lot to be grateful for but until I actually had to be away from my family, across the world, living as a full adult on my own in a place I knew nothing about, I had NO idea just how incredible my life was/is/was going to get. I am so excited because God has shown me so much and in the last half year so much of my head knowledge that I would use to try to be super spiritual and better than everyone around me has become heart knowledge. And I have come to this amazing realization that I know nothing in comparison to what I could know about God if I just continue to fall more in love with Him. I am not as cool as I thought I was and I don’t know as much as I thought I did. But I DO know that God is amazing and pursuing a life with Him is the only thing I really want. Christ is enough for me. I have been humbled (and could always do with more of it) and I have been tested. I have been hurt and I have been mended. I have been a failure and I have been victorious but through it all, I would have been NOTHING without the help and the provision of my Father. My entire school has come such a long way and everyone has been transformed by Jesus and it has been amazing to watch. But the time has now come for us all to graduate DTS and be put back into the real world. We spent this past week having lectures on re-entry and we are about to say our goodbyes and then it will be time to take EVEYRTHING we have learned and bring it home. But more importantly than that, it is time to go home and CONTINUE to grow in the Lord. He has taught us all so much but He is done with us. Not at all. Our mission is not over now, our assignment is just changing to fit into a new location. God still has a lot for us and I am SO excited to see where everyone in our school goes. We may be saying goodbye, but saying goodbye is just opening a door to saying hello again in the future. God is so amazing and I am SO ready to live my life for Him forever. I will fail sometimes and I will stumble, but I will always come back to Him because I KNOW He will never leave me. THANK THE LORD! <3 I am excited to say that I will be home in Arizona once again on Sunday evening! So for now I ask for prayer for safe travels, I ask for prayer for deeper desires to go deeper with God and I ask that you all pray for new opportunities for me and everyone in my school as we begin our new journeys at home and all over the world. Thank you all so much for your prayers and support and always being by my side with encouragements! I am so appreciative! I love you all! See you soon! After our graduation tonight that is! ;D Blessings, Christianna Marie!