“Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” -Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Faith might be defined as great attempts founded in great expectations. Most of the time, I grossly underestimate God. My natural tendency is to carefully live my life in a safe way that doesn’t really require any great move of God-and certainly does not expect God to do impossible things.
I want to believe more of God than that.
I believe that God wants to do impossible things, and I want to live my life with an expectant, audacious faith that gives Him a chance to do them. My blog is titled “Audacious Faith” not because I understand what that looks like, but because I want to learn.
The story of this blog started in Dakar, Senegal. I spent two years sharing the gospel with Muslim college students that didn’t have access to it-and it changed my life. [And made a lot of my hair fall out in the process.] Moving to Senegal didn’t mean that I’d grasped the idea of what it meant to live with my life with audacious faith-it simply meant that I was breathing African air.
Last summer, I moved back to Chapel Hill. I now spend my days trying to figure out what it looks like to boldly follow Jesus in America.
I write because it makes me feel. It makes me remember. It makes me avoid doing laundry-and that just feels right.
I hope that God is building audacious faith in me-and that He might use some of my stories about what He is doing to build that kind of faith in you, as well. Happy reading!
With joy,
Ashley
