This is the second of three excerpts from admissions essays submitted for my masters program at Fuller, starting September 2025.

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What I most truly and deeply know about this vocation lives already within me: a profound resonance in my heart for what is pure and good and beautiful; an upwelling compassion for the vulnerable; and a holy restlessness to make people aware of the beautiful work God is doing in the world through Jesus.

It is because of Jesus, after all, that I believe in God.

If there is a God, a God of love, wouldn’t that God put on flesh and walk among us? Wouldn’t he make himself known and approachable even to the most humble of us? Wouldn’t he share our pain, carry our burdens, and set the world right by bearing the brunt of the brokenness himself? Wouldn’t he extend love to everyone who would receive him, leaving no one out? Wouldn’t he conquer our greatest enemy, death, and share that victory? Yes, he would, and did.

And so, said another way, if God is, then Jesus must be. And if Jesus is, then so must God be also.

Despite being born into the comforts of middle class American privilege, I’ve been through excruciating pain and loss in my life. To be cared for in my darkness and healed by the God who has humbled himself, felt my pain, and took my blame is to experience a knowledge of the truth that cannot be un-known: Jesus is alive, present in Spirit, reconciling humanity to the Father.

To know this first hand is in itself to be called. People must be told the truth about Jesus.

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