Right before the first IF:Gathering (about three years ago), I was terrified. IF had blown up and was reaching women all over the world, and I had no idea what it was going to be like or how it was going to turn out. I felt disconnected from God, my soul, and my friends.

This week was heavy. On Friday morning, we woke up to yet another shooting--this time in Dallas. It was the third day that we have been grieving with families who lost loved ones, and we continue to beg God to help us in the face of injustice.

“The Road Not Taken” is one of the only works I can still recite after two decades of school. I have always been drawn to that overgrown path in the wilderness, even though it scares me a little even now. Truth is, IF:Gathering began as more of a hunch than a vision.

It is hard to pick moments or photos to fully capture what happened last weekend at IF:Gathering. Nearly impossible to put words around how thick the Holy Spirit was present, or how beautiful the sound of thousands of voices lifting up the name of Jesus.

One of my favorite things about Lindsey Nobles is that she has followed me on this insane journey, and while I consider myself a friend to crazy adventure, she is the more loyal, steady, sane one of us.

I have spent a lot of time around some fantastically creative, gifted people lately who do not have big platforms. They are in their spot using their gifts in incredible ways and it is changing people's worlds.

Last year, we had the opportunity to join together in prayer for our communities and our world. As a result of this, we have seen God on the move through the lives of the women we get to work with and minister to through IF:Gathering.