Nine months away. Doesn’t feel real yet.

Let these next nine months be just as growth-filled as the ones I will spend away. 

As I wait for September, teach me and prepare me to spend the rest of my life on mission. I leave my comforts and my expectations and my friends and my country to follow your better plan to use me to my full potential. 

I love you. I want to know you more deeply, more intimately. Let me grow to depend on you alone. 

I know that this is a dangerous prayer, but I have entrusted myself to a faithful creator.

Hey, thanks for this incredible opportunity! Thanks for being good 100% of the time! Thanks for creating me for a purpose that is eternal and is anything but boring! 

I love you!

Amen.