1 Year Down, 2 to Go

The first year of this project sure did fly by 

Things have been a little hectic lately with school and some other personal issues I've been dealing with. Lately, I've had a lot of time to think about my current trade and have been wondering why it's not trading.

Apart from this project, God has me in a time of fully trusting him and being okay with not having full control of what the future holds. As I've said in the past, this project isn't solely about getting out of debt through trading up stuff, it is about figuring out who I am in Christ, building relationships in Christ, and sharing how God has changed my life.

Trust has really been a main theme lately. Our lives are in his timing, not ours.

So, about this project...What is its fate? Who knows? When do you decide to hang up your boots and call it good?

All I know, is that I didn't paint my van with huge "Trade Me Out of Debt" and "Trade Mobile" letters for nothing. I will be honest, there are days that I ask myself, "What the heck am I doing driving around a multi-colored van that gets horrible gas millage and has the website painted all over it?"

Sometimes I don't know. Maybe it's to humble me, or to just understand that what we have does not define who we are on the inside?

One of these days I will have to share with everyone my story of having everything you could ever want, all the way to losing it all within a short amount of time.

What we have, own, rent, or whatever, does not define who we are in Christ. What we drive or wear, does not define who we are in Christ. How well our grammar is, or how good our spelling is, or wether we can read or write, does not define who we are in Christ.

God see's us as his perfect creation, even if we see ourselves as worthless. Trust me, I've been there and seen the lowest of lows. God loves each and everyone of us the way we are. We don't have to be at a certain place in our lives to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior. He takes us as we are.

Anyway, I don't know where I was going with all this. Sometimes I just type out whatever is on my heart.

So,  Trade Me Out of Debt or not, van or no van, house or no house, debt or no debt, job or not, wether you have everything or nothing, God loves you the way you are, no matter the circumstances.