wow! i’m goin home! 6 days exactly!! i’m very excited to go home and i welcome the familiarity, but i don’t want this experience to be over. the past nine months have been wild.. a big ole rollercoaster. the things i have seen Jesus do, the things Jesus has used to me to do, the people i’ve gotten to meet, and the most important: what Jesus has done inside of me this year.
heres something i wrote down in my journal about the things i have gained and hoped to gain through coming on the race..
idk if this makes sense this is kinda me verbal processing in writing lol. i came on the race wanting to learn so many things and grow in so many things: wisdom, boldness, spiritual maturity, forgiveness, and many other really good and amazing things. i’m not saying i haven’t received any of those things on the race, but i have spent a lot of my race learning the basics of love, completely breaking down the definition i had of love, showing me the things i have thought were love in the past, the people i thought i was giving or receiving true love from, and completely reformed what love is and what real love looks like. i value this season and what i’ve learned through it more than all of the things i had hoped to gain, the truth is if i grew in those aspects but never in love then everything i knew would be completely useless. i grew to know the character of God a lot in this season and i’m so grateful to spend my race just getting to know Him on a deeper level.
so there ya have it. its been so sweet and at times its been so hard. the heart is a tricky thing. but the Lord is so good and faithful to complete the works that he starts in us and he allllways starts with the heart. love Him, let Him love you, love His people. thats really all. He will do the rest.
quick update!
thank you so much for making the decision to donate to me last year. this experience is one i will treasure for the rest of my life. you have indirectly blessed so many lives from Costa Rica all the way to Myanmar.
whats next???? i’m going to school!! i know. i’m shocked too. JC has put a big passion for women in children in my heart and i am going to Kennesaw State University to study psychology and social work and hopefully work in a womens shelter one day far away.
reach out!!! i’ll need some days to adjust from some killer jetlag but i would love to grab coffee and talk your ear off or listen about your life this year!!
all my love.
