Welcome and thanks for joining me! I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for a while now, so with the New Year I felt like it was time to dive in!
I guess I’ll explain the name I chose first. “Found in Wandering” has a lot of meaning to me. I’ve moved a lot and have never really felt settled anywhere before. That, plus my love of traveling, has led me to feel like I have a “wandering heart”. Typically when I ask what people think of the word “wandering” I get responses like lost, looking for something, or going somewhere with no destination. However, I’ve learned that wandering is apart of life for everyone. We all wander searching for our passions and purposes. In wandering, we learn who we are. Though at times we may feel like it, we are never lost. In Christ, we are always found. We are never without a loving friend that is guiding us exactly where we need to go. I think of the image of a child who is just learning to walk, led hands first holding onto a loving parent while being guided in the direction they are supposed to go. We may fall, try to change direction, or even decide we don’t want to keep walking at the moment but those loving hands are still there waiting to help us get back up and keep going. So as for the title, I have been found through my wandering and I’m so incredibly thankful.
My purpose for this blog is to use it as a way to better love people. There is a saying that my church teaches that has stuck with me which is “seek Jesus, make disciples, love radically”. Those six words have made me think hard about who I am and who I want to be. That last part, “love radically,” really tugged on my heart. From then on I have tried my best to live that out. “What does it look like to love radically?” For that I looked to Jesus. What did He do and how did He do it? Well the biggest answer is He went to the cross. That is the heart of the gospel, which meant I’d heard and read about it for a while, but it never had the same meaning until I started digging into it more. I looked at the examples and ways He treated people during His ministry and how He loves us now. “Do your best to live a Christ-like life,” was the advice I was given. This led me to discover how passionate I truly am about the gospel and what it means for our lives. I hope that through this blog I can share what is on my heart and learn to love radically in a new way!
So excited for this journey!
With love,
Paige Riley
seek Jesus, make disciples, love radically
Found in Wandering 