"I'm SO ready to come home!"
"I'm SO ready to sleep in my own bed!"
"I'm SO ready to wear clean clothes!"
"I'm SO ready to not always be around my team and be around the people I chose to be around!"
"I'm SO over this!"
Confession- I've said all these statements…. Multiple times in one month……starting 4 or 5 months ago. The worse part is that's just a small example of the excitement I've expressed in wanting to come home. I was SO ready!
Now? I find myself laughing at those statements I so passionately said months ago. I find myself completely living in each moment I'm still on the race, and cherishing every single second. I'm FINALLY so close to being home! Why am I all the sudden loving life and secretly hoping time slows down?????!!!!
Because God isn't finished with me yet. He wasn't finished 5 months ago and he isn't finished with me for the next 16 days until I'm home. As hard as this last month has been with the return home dangling right In front of my face, id be a fool to check out now.
Now, I'm sitting near the finish line looking back at the race I've just ran….. The scenery is something else I tell ya. Rocky Mountains that cut deep when you fall, and lush gardens of nothing but beauty.
So….. I continue to press on….. Press in….. And stand firm in Gods promises that he will work in us and through us until the last day.
To think that I was SO close to going home in month FIVE because this was just TOO hard? The ways I've grown since then is incredible. The people I've met since then have changed me forever. The lessons God has given me have taken what it means to be a woman of God to the next level.
Keep pressing in. When we open our eyes to what God has for us everyday, the small interactions can turn into big revelations. It's so beautiful.
Wake up everyday and chose who you are going to follow. He'll set up your day just perfectly…… And all you have to do is bask in the beauty and watch him transform your heart.
