Leaps

I wrote a piece for the InterVarsity National Blog!
Confuse a Freshman = Priceless

When I heard Amy recruiting for blog writers at ONS, I was both excited and hesitant. I want to write, and I'm also in the process of working on some of my lesser-known interests. I feel strange volunteering myself for something I feel unqualified for, but I also know there are times you need to jump on the opportunity.

So in the middle of my first couple weeks of Sacramento, I plopped down at a coffee shop and crunched out a piece on a topic I feel strongly about because I have been so blessed by it. It wasn't my best piece, and it doesn't have the tone of eloquence I occasionally (rarely...?) have. And part of me thinks they'd let anyone write...and by "anyone", I mean sub-par writers like yours truly. But there you go.

More than the buzz of being (kinda-)published, I think I'm excited that I did it. Tried something new. Did something I'm not exactly the expert at, that people don't know me for. And in the theme of "voice" that I've been pondering for the past month: I used it. Used it in a very vocal, real, practical way. Not on a profound topic or with a very loud volume, but regardless: I used a voice God gave me. Words, communication, thoughts, ideas, calls to action.

And so I write so words would not be forgotten. I write to add my voice to the dialogue. I write--young, 23-yeard-old that I am--to share, to communicate, to learn. In my lack of experience, it feels like I'm wincing and second-guessing myself as I jump...yet here we go.