A year ago, my life had gotten pretty boring. I was starting to feel sucked in, shelled up. My personality started to lose it's spark, I was becoming how my life was being lived. Not very exciting. Constrained. I was not living alive, I was letting life live around me. So I did something about it.
Moving to France was the best thing I've ever done. I learned a lot, but most of all it made me alive. It was challenging, out of my comfort zone, foreign. I learned to embrace the culture around me, to live simply- with out a bed, car, and furniture you'll learn that one fast! I also learned to make a difference in this world is not that hard. So this is my mission. To continue to live Simple and make a complicated huge difference in this world. Yes, a complicated difference not a normal difference. It makes sense to me. To cause people to ask questions, to complicate what the world sees as normal. I will live differently then the world, my life won't make sense to most- I'm pretty sure it doesn't make sense to most people now :) And I like that!
So now, life has taken me to the Big Easy. NOLA. N'awlins. New Orleans. I love this city. I will make a difference in this place. I will live in this city and I will be alive.
LOVE the blog Lauren! A million miles in a thousand years definitely inspired me to change the way I was living my life as well. So happy you guys are in NOLA and I am excited to see what plans God has in store for you!
ReplyDeleteLauren, i am so glad you are not just "settling" for a life that is normal and expected....I thank God that He is stirring these things in you and He is guiding your footsteps, instilling in you the desire to make a difference, and even teaching you how to do that. You are giving your life away and in return, your life is given back to you ten fold!
ReplyDeleteHey Lauren, thanks for sharing your blog with me. I'm excited to see you living alive, and thankful to have met you so I can be a witness of your journey!
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