"Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms." - 1 Peter 4:10

As many of you know, this summer I was hired to help lead a mission location for the summer. (I guess that's my simple job description.) My main responsibility (among many others) is to lead the program sessions every morning and evening. Since this is my first summer on staff, you could say I'm a little intimidated by this. All I know of staff is what I have seen by watching them my past three workcamps, mostly just the person leading the program. I can't even imagine that in a few short weeks that will be me, and that somehow by the time I land in Colorado next Monday (8 days!) I'll have this whole program memorized.

Before I got the call to join the Summer Staff team I was planning on going to Guatemala on a mission trip with my home church. My plan was to take those small two-ish weeks out of my summer for serving God. God's plan was to send me to some unknown city with some unknown girl for the ENTIRE summer. Originally, I thought this was a dream come true and that there was no way this was actually happening, why would I be called to talk to people all summer about Jesus? Crazy. Then after a few months of wrapping my head around the fact that I'm actually a program leader for Week of Hope, the end of my freshman year of college, the passing of my inspirational grandma, and a weekend away from real life, I arrived at church this morning emotionally drained and discouraged.

I mean seriously, I'm young, I'm inexperienced, I'm sometimes too spontaneous for my own good, and I'm unprepared. How could I possibly be ready to go to Colorado in 8 days? A main part of the message this morning was about the parable of talents in Matthew 25. God chose this morning to remind me that He has given me talents, some not even known to me yet, that He is calling me to use in this life. When I live my plans, I hide the talents He's given me. Yes, God has trusted me with talents and He wants to see me use them. Just like the rich man giving the gold talents to his servants, Godtrusts me. He knows I can handle what He has given me, even when I think I can't.

So the title of my summer blog is "God trusts ME" to remind me that no matter what may come along, I have God given talents to help me serve those I will encounter this summer. Through unexpected bumps in the road and times of discouragement, I will be reminded that it is God that trusts me.