Well I am home! I've been home for about 3 weeks now, WOW! wasn't I just in Ireland?
Re-entry… the hardest part of the Race, for me any way. I didn't think it would be this hard or take this long to adjust, but I guess that's what happens when you are a different person than when you left and everyday you have to fight off the enemy's attacks of trying to make you into the person you used to be. Everyday is a struggle, every morning I have to wake up and ask for God's help, for God's strength to walk through this day in a way that is pleasing to Him, for His strength to actually get up and do things!
It is so easy to fall into a deep low when coming back from the Race, but I have to keep reminding myself that I am different and nothing in this world is going to change that. All the people I spent the last year with are still there, nothing is missing. Yeah, they aren't with you everyday, you can't just walk into the next room and see one of them sitting there and go and talk to them; but they are still on this journey with you. Just because they are 2 states away (which is nothing compared to an African bus ride way) doesn't mean they stopped caring about you and your life and what God is doing in your life. It is so easy to forget those things, for the enemy to slip right in there and lie to you.
But the enemy has NOTHING on my Father! What God has done in my life this past year is so much more powerful than ANYTHING the enemy could try to convince me of.
God is so much bigger than this world! He is so much bigger than the flaws you now see in this world. He is so much bigger than the problems this world is giving you!
"In this world you will have trouble. But take heart, I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD." -John 16:33
