After over 4 months in Asia, we’ve moved on to Africa and I’m so pumped to finally be here! It’s my first time on this continent, and like everywhere I go… I love it!! My team laughs at me because wherever we happen to be at the moment, I usually say that it’s my “favorite” place.
I was starting to wonder about that as we left Asia. I want to travel across the entire world. How will there be enough room for each of these “favorite” places in my heart? And how will I know where God wants me if I love everywhere? Then I remembered something that Molly had written to me in a note.
We had passed out folded pieces of paper with the names of each squad member on them. Without looking at the name, we asked God to give us words for that person, and we wrote them down. Then at the end we opened the paper and gave the note to that person. Her note to me contained a lot of truth that I needed to hear, but the truth for that moment was something like this “Relax into loving people with God’s love and not your own.”
It sounds simple, but in that moment it was profound to me. I don’t have to worry about trying to figure out which place captures my heart the most, which people group I’m most “called” to, which country I could most see myself living in. God has given me a heart for the world, and I am content in the present wherever I might be. It’s not just me loving this place and these people, it’s God’s love in me.
So yeah, this is my favorite place in the world right now! It’s beautiful and the people are beautiful, and I love it!
