That's cool and all, but this is dangerous!

You've never met Sonder before, and the person who's taking you down to where Sonder lives you've only met once!

I do understand everyone's concerns about my current means of going to the Feast. There are some serious risks involved with going to the Feast as it is right now. However, I'm still determined to go (as evident by the fact that I've already left at this point) for a few reasons:

Because I believe that God works through people

God has already worked through both Sonder and Dad to bless me and help me strengthen my relationship with God. It's because of Sonder that I've learned about God's character and that my relationship with Him has blossomed tremendously, and it's because of Dad that I've been given a place to stress less, develop my relationship with God, and even tell others (and you all) about God, too. God has blessed me through both of them. I do understand everyone's concern that something could happen to me, or that I could get stranded with no way to get back home. I do understand that having faith is good, yet God gave us common sense. However, despite these risks, I believe that God has shown me the rewards in store if I choose to put my trust in Him.

God already gave me a feast experience recently.

Remember the feasts that I mentioned earlier? Did you notice how the Feasts of Trumpets is exactly 2 weeks before the Feast of Tabernacles? The Feast of Trumpets this year was the Sabbath of October 5th. And as the first feast that I was ever conscious of, I saw the effects of God's spirit being closer than before:

• God blessed me with a much better way to look at subscriptions that I had previously been so adverse to in the past.
• You can read the post I made and shared with my friends here.
• There are also some other pages on that site where I made notes about stuff I observed when reading the Bible, too. Feel free to look around!
• Sonder was hosting Vespers that same Sabbath on an SDA Discord server that I'm on, and he was able to tell people about this message. It shocked people that were in the voice channel with us, and some wanted to hear more about it!
• For those who don't know, Vespers is typically a time that Adventists spend closing out the Sabbath a bit before sunset.
• I was even able to tell my friend Reva, a new relatively new Christian, about how the laws that God gave to the Israelites weren't just arbitrary ones that were dropped later (as I shared earlier).
• That was definitely not on my bingo card that Sabbath.

Actually, since writing the last paragraph, God gave me another feast experience, which I wrote about here.

Why did all of this happen? I believe that it was because of it being a feast that Sabbath, so you had the Feast of Trumpets compounded on top of the Sabbath that day. And get this: that wasn't even the biggest feast of them all; that's what the Feast of Tabernacles is! If God blessed us and others that much during the Feast of Trumpets, I can only imagine what God has in store for the Feast of Tabernacles! That is one of the biggest reasons why I want to go!

Through you all telling me that I shouldn't go for various reasons, I have learned and am aware of the risks of going all the way to Tennesee for the feast with people that I unfortunately haven't gotten to know in person very well. However, God has also given me a sneak peak into the rewards that are in store for me should I choose to trust that He is working and giving me an opportunity to go through people like Sonder, who were brought closer to God through other people in this movement. He's allowed me to see both sides and given me common sense antd critical thinking to allow me to make an active choice about whether I will go or not. So, with how much He's blessed me through Sonder, I'm choosing to put my faith in Him that He's working through Sonder and this movement to bless me and many others.

Do you?

Do you believe that God will bless and protect me?

No "But God gives us common sense". Do you trust in our Father in Heaven and have faith that He will protect me and bring me back safely?

I know I do.