So, I am the kind of person that big events in the not so distant future don’t really phase me until they nearly upon me. I have a friend that asked me if I was “shouting from the rooftops” after I had excepted my place on the team. I said no, I don’t think that I have realized that I am leaving yet.
Now don’t get me wrong, I am excited. I have been praying for the past nine years that the Lord would send me overseas and this year has been the first year that He has said yes and the trip didn’t get canceled. I just don’t know quite how to process it all yet. I went on a trip to Peru this summer but that was my first time in another country, so I really don’t have a whole lot to compare this next season of life to.
I hope it doesn’t sound bad, but I have been realizing more recently that I am going to be gone almost all of next year… and that’s a long time
! I am excited to learn more of who the Lord has made me and I am really beginning to walking out ministering out of that identity that the Lord has given me. It has been a fun epiphany that I like and enjoy who I am made to be and how I am made to minister. I strongly encourage you to find out who you are, it will lead to the greatest fulfillment you can ever know.
Another thing that I have been realizing, and this is a prayer request, is that on this trip I don’t get to take the people that I love here at home with me into this new season. I know that is an obvious statement but these are the people who have colored the pages of my life with meaning and joy.
If you are reading this I want you to know that I DEEPLY love you and wish that I could take you everywhere with me. I guess this is part of what Jesus meant when He talked about leaving the 99 for the 1. The Lord is worthy of everything we can give Him. I am sure that I will have a great team and that they will be part of what makes this next season an amazing gift from God.
Thank you all for being a wonderful family, there is no possible way that I could repay you for what you mean to me. I wish I had the words to say it right.
God please tell them the things that my heart can not communicate. You said that Your strength is made perfect in my weakness, please demonstrate that here. Amen.
