E M M A M O O R E

AHGHAHHHHAGAHGHH...sorry that is kind of just how I feel at the moment because I get to finally share my very first guest blog post if many (fingers crossed!)

I honestly could not have chosen a better person to be the first guest on the blog...

drumroll please...today's guest...is...

E M M A M O O R E

To know emma is to love her. she is seriously the sweetest, coolest, and most loving girl ever. She has a major passion for mission work + God's calling has led her to many cool places (such as Guatemala and Peru!) I love you girl, and I know you will do big things. Now. Enough chit chat. Let's get to what you came here for Ladies and Gents. Now presenting Emma Moore:The Coolest Interruption

heyyy party people!!! my name is emma and i’m so excited to get to write a blog post for y”all!! if you couldn’t tell by now, parrish is one of THE coolest people ever. i met her at church and immediately knew that we would become good friends. she is so sweet and such a good encourager and ah i could just go on and on about how awesome she is but we would be here all day if i did that.... anyway, some brief stuff about myself. i just finished my junior year of highschool (wild wild times!). i’m a dance lovin, driving with the windows down blasting my favorite worship music, and the office watching( yes i’m basic, but i mean come on it’s the best) kind of gal. i love to travel and God has given me a huge heart for missions. parrish and i were actually supposed to go to guatemala together this summer, but it sadly got cancelled. God is so so good though and he knows what he’s doing!! ok this a very long intro sorry i’ll get to the actual topic now haha...

so as i’m sure all of y’all have noticed and experienced, the whole world is going through a crazy crazy time right now. there’s a lot of uncertainty and fear. it can be super frustrating. so you’re telling me i have to put my whole life on hold and sit at home for over a month?! idk about you, but that was my selfish response. i like to go go go and the thought of being suddenly interrupted was annoying. BUT what if instead of thinking of it that way, we allowed it to be a glorious interruption?? what do i mean by this? well i’ll tell ya. as a society, we have the tendency to get stuck. and i’m not talking about being stuck at home right now. i’m saying we were stuck before the coronavirus took over. stuck in our routines. stuck in our faith. stuck in every aspect of our lives. just going through the motions and not really stopping to see and listen to what God was actually telling us. Jesus didn't come so we could go through the motions. He came so we might have life and have it abundantly(John 10:10)!! i listened to a great sermon on this and so i just have to share. God is a god of movement. He created us for movement, but instead we like to be stagnate. to not progress. even though we may be checking all the boxes does not mean our hearts aren’t stuck. and even though we may not feel God, does not mean He is not moving either. the earth is always moving and we don’t feel that. He is working behind the scenes and we have to trust and lean into the fact that he is good and he is doing what is best for us.

you know what is awesome about being stuck though? you can get uppppp!!! God is waiting with wide open arms to pick us up out of our stuckness and encourage us to run to him instead of the security of our routines. BUT He has to get our attention first because when you’re stuck it is easy to forget to look to him and to think you have control over your whole life. to me God has done a pretty good job of getting the world’s attention right now. God literally stopped the business of our lives(which i tend to use as an excuse for not spending as much time with him) and is forcing us to look to him more than ever. to remember who he is and that he is in control of our lives. He gave us so much time to dig deep into him, his word, and ourselves. to stop and appreciate the things we take for granted. Idk about you, but that sounds pretty glorious to me. Yes, it’s hard and to be honest a little sucky at times. scratch that..a lot sucky at times. i miss my people ( anyone else having post -i used to get to hug people-depression bc i sure am) and the activities that filled my life, but you have to admit that it’s pretty dang cool that God cares for us so much that He would shut down the whole world to get our attention. that is something to praise Him for during a time where it is hard to find things to be thankful for. yanno what’s also so cool about rising up out of our stuckness? we get to point others to Christ!! people will see how God has wrecked our lives in a positive way. they will see the hope we have and get to see Jesus through us.

God wants to do big things in your life. He wants a relationship with you and He wants to use you as a vessel for His kingdom, but we can’t step into that calling unless we give him our attention. remember that only God is perfect, so we will mess up. it’s notttt easy and it doesn’t happen overnight, but He is with us and cheering us on every step of the way. sooooo, all of that being said, i pray that you would look to God through all of the craziness happening and remember His goodness and grace. that you would think of this as a glorious interruption instead of an annoying one(that is wayyyy easier said than done). if you’re like me, all of this reopening jazz is very exciting, but i would encourage y’all( i’m talking to myself here) to not completely go back to what was normal, to continue to give God your attention, and to walk in the sweet joy and calling we have received:)))

ok that’s my long rant. thanks to anyone who stuck around this long. i love you! you all are world changers! parrish is the coolest! adios!!

-emma moore

thanks emm:))) I could not have said it better myself!! Thank y’all for tuning in to another episode! I love you guys<333

xoxo,

ginger on a mission