According to Keara

"On the mountains I will bow my life to the One who set me there In the valley I will lift my eyes to the One who sees me there When I'm standing on the mountain I didn't get there on my own When I'm walking through the valley I know I am not alone You're God of the hills and valleys" Hey y'all! This is strange because I am sitting in my local Dunkin Donuts, not the one in Gatlinburg, writing the last blog from my Smoky Mountain Summer Mission trip.  I have been home now for 3 days and I am still processing what the past nine weeks have taught me.  Its hard to compact every little thing that occurred into a blog post, but I will do my best to explain to you what this summer meant to me. So, to begin, the last two weeks of the mission were my favorite weeks of the whole summer, even with all of the emotional goodbyes.  Staff left and us students got closer than ever before. We had to learn to rely on one another and lea...

Be still, and know that I am God.  I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! Psalm 46:10 Hey yall! I have successfully not completed a blog post every week.  In fact, I have not even completed it every other week, since it has been three weeks since my last one.  With that being said, it has been a crazy three weeks, and by crazy I mean busy, exciting, emotional, and everything else you could wrap up into that word, yet I remain calm and still in the Lord because through all of that craziness he is teaching me so much and I want to share that with you.  I have been soaking up the scenery here in Gatlinburg.  The rivers and mountains, all if it is breathtaking.  It has been a journey of learning to be okay in silence and listening for God to speak to me. I am reminded of a new song by Hillary Scott & The Scott Family, "Still".  While here this summer, a large part of where I see God showing h...