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The love of my life began when I was five years old.  Since then I have been wooed by my Jesus into the wilderness, to the depths and to the heights.  I am climbing the mountain and the view is glorious ya’ll, glorious!

So what does this mountain called Talia’s life look like? 

My Background:  I’ve grown up in a Christian home, accepted Christ when I was 5 and fell in love with him when I was 13 around a bonfire in Galeana, Mexico.  My dad started AIM when I was six, right around the time my sister Leah came along, so did the sibling known as AIM.  By age 13 I knew I couldn’t go back, I was ruined.  I’d seen too much of the world, of its pain and of its potential.  So after college, I just walked in what I knew and joined AIM staff.  The last year was pretty rocky and at one point the Lord straight up said, Tal, there’s a mountain in front of you and it’s not moving, you’ve got to climb it.  So I did.  In the midst of it all, it’s been kind of a rush.  Like rock climbers get as they climb the face of a mountain. 

My Journey: Depression is a disease that absolutely consumes the person it plagues.  All they can do is focus on themselves and their pain, and work through solution after solution on how to get out of their funk. 

My first year out of college was challenging to say the least, and I struggled with depression.  I can honestly say I experienced the dark night of the soul.  The time where it is completely black, still and alone.  I felt like I couldn’t get out of this funk and that God apparently didn’t want to do anything about it – regardless of how much I cried out to him. 

I had reached the utter depths, there was no light at the end of the tunnel, and I felt like I was spiraling out of control.  Then one day a couple of weeks ago, a friend’s mom committed suicide.  I went to visit at the gathering house, I brought coffee over and sat and talked with another friend there.  The air was heavy and the pain was thick.  The mom had become depressed and I realized that could be me, my life had become all about me. 

The Lord spoke and said, “Talia, you can move to Atlanta (my previous plan) and that will be okay, but your life will be about you.  Or, you can choose to do the World Race, and your life won’t be about you, it will be about me.”

I’ve got to have a life revolving around the Father.  I can’t have my life be about me.  At first I tried to tell God all of the things he would have to do to confirm this was the right step for me.  But then he said, No, this is about you jumping without the safety net.  So, I prayed with others, made sure I heard from the Lord, and then I jumped.  And here I am.  While I don’t have everything figured out, I’m climbing along, learning technique and maturing in my faith.


My Future: 
If there is one thing I’ve experienced and want to know in its entirety, completely is Freedom.  I’ve adopted that as my mantra; freedom in Christ, freedom for the captives.  There is wholeness in that word.  That describes my future as I know it: Freedom. 

My Idosyncresies:
Everything is my favorite.  I like to get up at 5:00 in the morning.  I mix cereal with my ice cream and eat it out of a mug.  Everything is better out of a mug.  The line on the toes of my sock has to be lined up perfectly with where my toes meet my feet.  I work hard at submitting to authority.  I am competitive.  I don’t notice things and am in my head a lot.  I do not think linearly.  I am obsessed with fun.  I am big on God and knowing him.  I’m not above watching a season of 24 straight through.  I am obssesed with my family and with my family worship group.



























28 Comments

  1. Talia- I just wanted to tell you that you are amazing! I admire what you are doing and I love you like the sister in Christ you are to me! You are in my prayers.

    Peace Out Yo <><

  7. give us more dirt about your past! like where were you on the afternoon of september 26th? at work hmmmm….?

  8. Now that you have become a part of Bri’s new family, that also makes you a part of her old family. 🙂 So we will pray for you what we pray for her; that God will prepare you emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually for what He has planned for you.

  9. Talia! I love you and am sooo pleased that you are on A team! I knew from the minute I met you this would happen.. two unlikely susspects would be placed on the same ship.. OHh im soo excited for January!

  11. Have you ever thought about being a clown? You are pretty good at making little kids laugh at you. By the way, what is team a’s website?

  12. Hey Girl! You rock pretty hard. I wish that you were on the B Team, but I am sure that the A Team needs some more otter type personalities. I think they only have a few! Miss you, love you and can’t wait to see your awesome smile again in Mexico! (That’s pronounced Meh -hee-co) Over and out Red Fox Leader

  14. Hey Girl! Thanks for the birthday wishes. I love you and am stoked that we all get to travel around the world together! Hope you are doing well and give me a call sometime.

  17. talia i got cut off on my last comment! sad! but i think you are awesome and i don’t want you to leave. but the world is better for it.
    i haven’t seen you in over a year. i miss you.

  19. Talia, I just met you oh like two days ago and think your freakin awesome! Rock with it over the next year! I can not wait to read about your journey! peace

  21. I Love your BIO! especially the part about lining your sock line up with your toe line. we all have crazy issues……just ask bri about blankies and touching cardboard…hahaha anyways, we will be praying for you all so much over the next year as you become her new family! take care of her! 🙂

  22. Hi Talia:)I’m Cristina from Shalom church.I love your BIO and i am sure that God is doing awesome things through you to bless many people.Love,Cristina:)

  24. Talia,

    Hey, mud-slonger! When did you develop such an artistic bent in life? You go girl!

    Remember, whenever you trust God he will throw you in over your head. Get used to being afraid. It sucks…, but it’s the way it is for mind-benders who don’t like a kinear-sequential approach to life.

    Your old mud-pit buddy,
    Gary

  25. I miss you so much! God is doing amazing things here with our family and in Atlanta, and I know he’s doing amazing things with you.

    Here are two great scriptures I found the other day:

    For the Lord will comfort Zion,
    He will comfort all her waste places;
    He will make her wilderness like Eden,
    And her desert like the garden of the Lord;
    Joy and gladness will be found in it,
    Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
    – Isaiah 51:3

    Listen, O daughter, consider and give ear:
    Forget your people and your father’s house…
    The king is enthralled by your beauty;
    honor him, for he is your lord.
    – Psalms 45: 10-11

  26. Talia, what a true blessing it is to see our God of wonders working in you. It has been a long time, but I remember you often. May you and your family continued to be blessed. Love you, Natalie

  28. have never been happier to read a blog for an hour in my life! loved to hear from you and love even more to read how the Lord has been working in your life and molding your heart! i will email soon. love you babe!!!!

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