The race is coming to a close. We fly home in a few days. I don’t know the perfect way to end this blog. It’s been a space for honesty during my journey.
I’ve been looking back in order to look forward. So maybe I’ll just end with honest words, and what’s more honest than sharing thoughts from the journal I’ve carried with me through this whole journey.
SERBIA
“If I have His acceptance, if He believes I’m worth the cross, why would I have fears of sharing my life with anyone else. If they don’t accept me, they don’t accept Christ. In order to let Christ be seen, I have to let me be seen.”
ROMANIA
“Sometimes people don’t need a pouring into. They need a place to pour out. All their pain, regrets, assumptions, lies. To simply listen is enough sometimes.”
MALAWI
“Grace doesn’t justify. It acknowledges the truth, but with an understanding for the person’s story that doesn’t let the truth be marred with bitterness or resentment.”
ZIMBABWE
“I stepped into becoming more vulnerable thinking I needed to work on sharing the broken parts of my life, past and present struggles. I’m being convicted of welcoming people into the joys.”
BOTSWANA
“I’ve taken too much time mourning the loss than celebrating what’s still present.”
CAMBODIA
“I cannot be all things to all people. I can only be who God has called me to be for each person He’s placed in my life.”
THAILAND
“I don’t want to give until it hurts. I want to give until it doesn’t hurt anymore.”
MALAYSIA
“I still get caught up in the fear of not belonging. I don’t know if it’s something I’ll ever get past. The feelings will come and I will have to overcome, again and again. It’s okay. I will overcome because He has overcome.”
PANAMA
“The Lord gave me what I needed, not wanted.”
COSTA RICA
“No one who deserves your love expects you to be perfect. You just need to be present. That is enough.”
This is how it ends, but this is also how it begins.
