a testimony

Finding your calling is an effect of the amount of faith you have for it.

Your calling is a response of faith.

When I graduated high school, I still didn’t know what I wanted to do. When I was a freshman, I thought I’d be an actress but as I continued my high school career, I realized that I wasn’t making an effort towards it. After graduating, I decided to take a gap year. My intentions were to figure out who I was and find inspiration for a career field I was genuinely interested in.

During that gap year, I was isolated in the walls of the home I stayed in since I was a teenager. I took care of my younger sister with non-verbal autism, I didn’t go out, didn’t have my drivers license. I basically let fear take the steering wheel and watched it depict my future. One night I wrote in my leather-bound journal what jobs I would only dream of working in. I wrote that I would work at a bookstore or at a coffee shop. I didn’t see myself doing anything else.

Months passed by and I knew that I needed to face some fears. I was scared of driving due to some minor accidents I was in. Encountering those fears were challenging but with practice, I finally got my license that fall. Another fear came to my attention, I was supposed to pick either going to college or get a job.

With these choices in mind, I chose to be ambitious and do both. During this time, I used what faith I wrote in that journal. But I had followed a local coffee cart on Instagram that a lot of my friends visited. The owner had posted that she was hiring, and she was opening her first brick-and-mortar in the area. I applied for the job online, with the help of my grandma’s encouragement. I got into the first round of interviews, which landed me two more interviews before I got the call that I landed my dream job.

With my story, it has been a response of faith. If I didn’t believe in myself the way I knew God did when it felt impossible, or the promises he remembered speaking over me, none of this would’ve happened. I thank and praise God that every day I wake up to get ready for my favorite job. As a barista, I learn the world of coffee and how much I really enjoy serving people. Over this past year, I’ve been continually growing into the person I’m molded to be, which meant that there were bumps in the road and high achievements across all areas of my life. God has showed me people who care about me in the workplace and what it’s like to be Him in all roles that I fufill.

Matthew 17:20 says: “He said to them…"“If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain,’Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

Nothing will be impossible for you.

Faith as small as a mustard seed.

Small faith moves mountains of faith you wouldn’t have moved with your own will. Small faith moves mountains of fear if you don’t let it consume you.

No dream simple or challenging is unattainable. God has remembered the promises he spoke over you.

Have faith in what God’s perfect timing has planned for your future, no matter what size your dreams are.

Keep Pouring,

Khalie x