My Story (revised)

So for our third meeting our assignment was to write our story and share it with our small group. I had a really hard time coming up with my story so I ended up writing it at the last minute, but whatever, here it is:

I've been a Christian all my life but I've never felt adequate or bold enough to do missions. In early 2002 I meat Tiffany who I became great friends with. She was incredibly, painfully honest about her struggles and over the next few years I watched God completely changer her heart and help her deal with the sin in her past. She is the first person who I saw God completely change. In 2006 Tiffany went off to Youth With a Mission to learn how to be an effective missionary. I had the attitude of "yeah that works for you, but not really for me." On December 7, 2007, my amazing friend Tiffany was shot and killed at Youth With a Mission in Denver, CO. Before she was killed Tiff declared that she was going to "change the world by loving on people." Over the past 2 1/2 years I've been thinking about what it means to show someone so much of God's love that it changes their world just like knowing Tiff changed mine. In February of this year there was a message series at church called The 6:8 Challenge which was based on Micah 6:8 which says "He has showed you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God." I learned about being compassionate and merciful to those who need it. I learned the importance of loving people in an active way, not just with good intentions. I also learned to ask God to break my heart for the things that break His. The last entry of Tiff's prayer journal held Genesis 50:20 which says "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." God is still using Tiff to inspire me to go change the world by loving completely and unconditionally. My mission is to pick up the torch that Tiffany carried and to let God use me to touch other people's lives.