where am i?

I found myself sitting today in my fourth floor apartment watching the snow fall gracefully outside. As my cat sleeps next to me in the silence of the sunset through the snowfall, I smile. Thinking nothing more than where am I?

Eleven years ago last week, I was at a basketball game that would change my life. A friend introduced me to Jesus that night, on a set of very hard bleachers... somehow in the moment, I didn't notice.  The years that followed were full of questions, searching, reading, examining, thinking, feeling... 

Three years later, I died on an altar and arose never to be the same again. I've seen things happen with my own eyes that my education couldn't explain, even if I tried, not that I would expect it to. 

Today, at twenty six years old, I sit in a nice warm apartment in Missouri overlooking a snowfall. The solitude quiet of the night has silenced the noise. I've traveled thousands of miles around the world, seen the miraculous, made friends with beautiful people of various backgrounds in many places. All of this leaving me with a simple smile and a thought, where am I? I currently feel as if I am in the eye of a great storm. It's truly unexplainable at this point. But I can see the storm and somehow see that everything is exactly as it's supposed to be.  I've weathered many storms before, all in good company and leadership. In the midst of it all I have a solid peace, as if the snowfall represents my soul on this cold day in Missouri.

where am i?

and again, I smile.  The answer.... right where I'm supposed to be. 

Many people are beginning to ask me... what's next? As each day weathers a new adventure, I choose to prolong the question. But for now, know that, I'm right where I'm supposed to be and when I'm supposed to change that, I'll know.  And when I know, I'll make sure that you know. Until then... I'm simply embracing the adventure of now... in the eye of a great storm.