To be honest with you, today has been difficult. I want to me home with my family and I want to be stuffing myself with all the goodness of a Thanksgiving dinner. Instead, I had peanut butter and jelly for lunch and for dinner I ordered Indian food. Even though I said “not spicy” while ordering my food for takeout, the first bite of my fried noodles with chicken left my mouth on fire. One bite and that’s all I could get down. I also ordered Roti, which I ate first because it’s more of a small appetizer than a meal.
As I sit here still hungry, I debate whether or not to order fried rice from the restaurant next door with the money “I’m not spending until next week at debrief”.
As I sit here in a pissy mood from all the frustrations that have piled on over the past couple hours, I try to focus on the reality. Reality is if I was home, I still wouldn’t be eating dinner with my family. My mom is in North Carolina visiting her sister, my dad and step mom went away for the weekend, and my sister is spending the day with her friends. Reality is I have a family to come home to in 11 short days whereas friends of mine have recently been coping with the death of their family members. Reality is my dad and Margie are making me a “Thanksgiving redo” dinner when I get back and a good friend of mine is freezing leftovers for me. Reality is while I desire to stuff my face with tasty goodness while complaining about the meal before me that’s “too spicy”, there are people all over the world…people I have met this year…that have gone days without eating and they are ecstatic to be eating the small bowl of white rice placed before them. Reality is I’m surrounded by 5 wonderful women who have become like family.
Reality is I am truly grateful.
I am so incredibly thankful for my amazing family and friends.
I am thankful for each and every person who has supported me this year. Whether it has been financially, prayerfully, or emotionally it has been support that was essential to making this year possible.
I am thankful for the World Race. This year has been a crazy adventure in every way imaginable. It has by far been the best (and hardest) year of my life thus far.
I am thankful for all the people God has blessed me with through the race. I have met so many beautiful people who are so dear to my heart.
I am thankful for the passion God has ignited in me to spend my life in ministry and the heart He has given me for Honduras and Guatemala.
I am thankful for the plans God has for my future…the ones I know about and the ones beyond my imagination.
I am thankful for God’s grace and His redemption in my life. I am not the same woman I once was.
I am thankful I’m going home in 11 days!
I am so incredibly thankful for my life and everyone in it!
