I know I haven’t blogged in awhile… I will, I will, I will
post consistent blogs, not only with updates about life here in Kenya but also about
what God’s teaching me. If I say it enough times, maybe it will be true! Or, that I’ll discipline myself to do it…
We are back in Kenya after two months of being away. Did we
expect to be gone two months? Nope. Our team’s plan was to go home for a month
and see our families, support raise, and then have a team debrief in Georgia
for a few days before heading back to Kenya mid-January. My situation was a bit
different because I planned to spend the month in South Africa where my family
met me for a few weeks, and then head back to Kenya.
Well, God changed our plans, as He has a way of doing. Our
leadership recently changed, and our team needed longer than the few allocated days
to work through some things. As a result, God directed us to spend a month in
Georgia. So, instead of getting on a plane from South Africa to Kenya
mid-January “as planned,” I flew to the US instead.
Time in Georgia was great for our team. We got acquainted with
our new leadership and their expectations of us, worked through and settled a
lot of things within our team, and now feel more supported and better-equipped
to live in Kenya this year. And God knew that we needed this time. It wasn’t
our plan, but He knew that we needed this all the while.
As we ran the other day, my friend, Jenny, and I were talking
about God’s plans and how we are constantly called to be uncomfortable. God
tends to be in the uncomfortable places with His sleeves rolled up, doing the thing.
And He asks us to join Him there. He invites us into the murky places, the
unknown where He is all around in the mystery.
And it is in this that we are stretched, refined and
experience incredible growth. It is in the discomfort where we find Him and
depend on Him most, and experience Him most intimately.
It is in these places where we lose ourselves, and we find
Him.
And that’s why God calls us to be constantly uncomfortable. It’s
why He constantly tells me not to plan, or seems to reroute the plans I do make.
He beckons me there, but I still have to choose Him. It’s the place where He
meets me most.
Not much
about this journey or God’s plans has been comfortable. Our team’s “plans”
constantly change. Constantly. We have to depend on the Lord. And it hurts.
It’s painful and stretching sometimes. And it’s most definitely uncomfortable.
But I
wouldn’t trade this life, this following Christ into the uncomfortable for
anything. I have greater closeness with Him and know Him more than I ever have.
But the crazy thing is, there is so much more!
Click
here to read about our team’s first week here and updates about what God has
been doing in this community.
