Have you heard of Katie Davis? The 19-year-old class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee who “quit her life” to begin a ministry in Uganda and become a foster mother to 14 girls?

Katie’s new book was released on October 4th, and if I didn’t have a stack of books a mile high to plow through by the end of the semester, I would buy it right now. As it is, I will have to content myself with Katie’s blog until January. But here’s an excerpt from the book:

You see, Jesus wrecked my life. For as long as I could remember, I had everything this world says is important. In high school, I was class president, homecoming queen, top of my class. I dated cute boys and wore cute shoes and drove a cute sports car. I had wonderful, supportive parents who so desired my success that they would have paid for me to go to college anywhere my heart desired. But I loved Jesus. And the fact that I loved Jesus was beginning to interfere with the plans I once had for my life and certainly with the plans others had for me. My heart had been apprehended by a great love, a love that compelled me to live differently.

Interesting question to consider: does the fact that we love Jesus interfere with our plans for our lives, or compel us to live differently? If not, why not? Shouldn’t it?

Katie Davis is, as I mentioned in the post about Steve Jobs, crazy. But she is wonderfully crazy, the kind of crazy that we should all aspire to be. Why are we so concerned with being respectable, reasonable, rational? Perhaps because we are relying on our own sound management of our lives, instead of on God’s?

Investing in our worldly kingdoms seems a lot less risky than investing in God’s, but it’s the latter that provides the kind of return God is looking for. How can we begin to pry our lives, plans, and worldly treasures out of our own hands, and place them in God’s? Thoughts? Leave ’em in the comments!