Love will sustain
Love will provide
Love will not cease
At the end of time
Love will protect
Love always hopes
Love still believes
When you don't.
I have finally done it. I sat down, and wrote the blog.This is the blog I have been putting off for months…the blog that made it official. This is the blog where I am supposed to write something that means something. I will share my experiences and thoughts and pictures as I travel to 11 countries in the period of 11 months. This is the first blog of many, and it marks my journey into the world.
Literally.
I was given $8,000 dollars today. I would like to stop and take a moment to write that again. I was given $8,000 today.What.the.heck.
I experienced today what I call grace. I don't deserve this. I have done a horrible job of fundraising.
I haven't even tried. I have been lazy. I haven't even sent a single support letter. I have been scared. I have been weak. And today, despite all of this, I have been given a gift.
My church has shown me love.
My GOD has shown me grace.
And just like that, I am halfway funded.
It just hit me tonight, how selfish I have been. I let fear and doubt creep into my heart, forgetting that the battle is over. It has already been won. God wins every. single. time. So I have sat down and done something very hard for me. I have written my first blog post. See, now I am accountable to the next year and a half. Now, I have completely accepted the Lord's calling to leave everything behind and follow. This is a small step. But it is a step. Finally.
I am just a kid.
But I have known the feeling of heartbreak, of pain and sorrow so deep it hurt to breathe. I have been rejected. I have been forgotten. I have been ashamed… I have been so, so ashamed.
And yet the LORD still shows me grace. He is jealous for me. He loves me. So I wrote the blog.
I finally wrote it.
"I don't care where you fall, where you have been.
I'll never forsake you, My love never ends.
It never ends."
“Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.”
