I haven’t posted a blog in a while but so much has happened in the past few weeks so here’s one I wrote when leaving Ethiopia but never got a chance to actually post it.
Currently I’m sitting on a bus on my way to the airport. About a 3 hour drive, so enough time to dry my tears and process some things before I move on to the next thing, and new places. I know that sounds sad but it’s definitely real life.
After living in Ethiopia for 3 months and getting to serve along side some of the most genuine beautiful people I have ever met, and after making some of my best friends with the children that I was nearly living with. They most definitely weren’t easy goodbyes.
If I had to sum up my time in Ethiopia it would be… deserted for sure, and lost alone and scared for most of it. But wow did God blow my mind. He spoke to me, speaking peace comfort and identity into my life. He showed me what love looks like in some of the most raw deeply rooted friendships. The lord revealed to me what it looks like to have a constant happiness from him. With that he showed me It’s having a mindset of contentment in ALL things because we have the the Holy Spirit in us always. So no matter our circumstances we can be content, and from that comes an overflow of happiness to share with others.
I thought I wanted to leave Hopethiopia, and it had been long enough for me to be in one place for that long. I was wrong. I realized as we where packing our things up and saying goodbye that it was going to be much harder for me to let go. To move on for real. With that it seemed I couldn’t thank the lord enough for making it hard to say goodbye. How beautiful is it to love people so much that it hurts so bad to say bye.
Fast forward to my present life. I am sitting on a patio that I now call home in Nicaragua. I have arrived and fallin in love yet again with another country and the people I’m surrounded by. And all those goodbyes seem to be so far behind me. Yes i still miss all my friends that i left but i know I’ll see them soon enough and that the lord has the craziest plans for each and every one of them.
Read my next blog to hear about what my ministry here in Nicaragua looks like.
