Aspen Trees

In the Monday morning chapel service this week, we had a speaker come in from outside the school to talk to us. Our speaker was Jessica Nipp Hacker, the coordinator for the ELCA Malaria Campaign and a Wartburg graduate herself. Naturally, I was interested, because I am quite passionate about the malaria initiative here on my college campus! I was however, not expecting for myself to be moved about my own life and the people that are around me every single day. "Jess" as everyone on campus called her, described the lifestyle of aspen trees, and related it to the life of Christians. Well, the life that Christians should lead rather. A grove of quaking aspen trees in Utah makes up the largest organism on the planet, as each and every tree is interconnected by the roots underground. Isn't this just incredible? What if Christians were able to live the same way? Each an individual, yet all intertwined and connected at the roots, at the heart. Just something to think about.. :)

My quest..

A little information about this blog(or the intention of it anyway!):

I am on a mission to view the world and the beautiful people in it more like Jesus does. I need more compassion, love, passion, intensity, commitment, drive, perseverance, etc. to love the world the way He does. Every single day I pray that God helps me to be more tolerant of others and help me to see things from their perspectives, rather than just my own. I hope to be more like Jesus every single day, and to love the same way He does. Every single person on this earth is a child of God, and they all deserve to be treated with respect and compassion, and need to know how much they are loved!! This blog will hopefully follow my quest for a more loving, caring life in our savior, Jesus!