In Peru, we wrote a letter to ourselves for when we finish the race that was set before us and I happen to stumble upon it and here is what I wrote!!!
Dear Future Brooklyn, ( your name)
I say that because remember, you are not the same! You have become more like the Lord in ways you don’t even know. There were days you felt like nothing was happening but he was working in you even then! You got to see what you look like when you take control of your life and make choices for yourself, you got to laugh, be free, and even cry over the painful but yet beautiful passion for this hurting world. You got to see what you are passionate about and you got to not only walk with the Lord, but you got to skip with him in your joy, sit in his lap when you gave your colors to him, you got to run in the wind with him and he gave you the spirit of wanting to be free and you are!!
I have realized I can be myself and the Lord accepts who I am even when I’m not doing. Brooklyn really reflect on the character of God because he is going to bring me through all the hard things I have to face at home, he will bring healing in those places that seem so tough like the walls, it’s harder to build a wall and it will be easy for the Lord to crush it and start new within me. Make sure to remember the moments the Lord was with you and all that he did in the light, like in my tattoo. I please the Lord in my childlike joy, he loves me so much to bring me this joy in this season of life. It’s going to be an internal war when you go home and I know I don’t have it all figured out but he does and his plan is way better than my own! He said in a prophesy once that I am strong and I can withstand the storm that faces me. I can still make my life what I want it to look like in difficult situations, I am more mature now and I can take that step into responsibility.
Brooke with your heart, you are going to change people’s lives because the Lord has given you such a passion in pain and wanting to help! He has called you to go and for him to be your daily bread. He is going to surround my family and restore things, maybe not like before but stop worrying, he has you, in fact, go to your secret place together and see what he says! He is proud of me and the way I say yes! Keep saying yes and obeying in his plans for me.
And now you are on the plane home!! Maybe, you have some regrets but the thing is you have learned so much that now your regrets are going to be graduations! You have come so far and I can be confident that I ran this race with endurance and the Lord has strengthened me for what is coming NEXT. Yes, this is not over Brooke, you still have so much to give and to be excited about. You and the Lord will venture through some amazing and hard times together but, he will be with you through it all. He will not abandon me or leave me! He is the one who includes me, fills me with the Holy Spirit and gives me full life! Yes, Brooklyn, you made it and now there is even MORE.
Remember that feeling in Peru when they were baptizing people and you wanted this kind of life filled with God’s glory, well you can have that life of MORE and a life with risk and getting outside of your comfort zone! Your life is going to be different and the valleys are going to keep happening but the question is are you going to allow the Lord into those spaces? Are you going to continue to live out who the Lord has called you to be? Are you going to remember what he has brought you through? Are you going to trust God with your daily bread and share it with the world?
THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING!! Even though it seems like the END. You have a new season ahead of you, one of joy because joy withstands disappointment and fear and even rises through sorrow like in the book I studied. Brooke make sure to read back to those good times and keep rejoicing in what little and big things he gives you! Don’t lose those beautiful parts of yourself!! Be myself because the Lord has created me to be so unique, no one else can possess my qualities! It’s a big world, after all!! Make sure to take the opportunities the Lord presents to you and give a sincere yes to the even difficult things!
This is a season of NEW BEGINNINGS and testing in the dry places, he has prepared me for what is coming next, new intimacy with the Lord, a season of climbing steps, a season where I’m going to see the Lord in a big way in my life. A season of faithfulness, a light guiding you through a dark forest. He says, Brooklyn, I have created you and you are good!!
Did I really write that because I don’t remember all these powerful words!! And now I’m at home remembering the journey that the Lord and I did together! Re-entry is going very good. I actually go to youth group and the pastor also did the World Race and the Lord surprises me even in the mundane. I am studying at school to be a teacher!! And I’m going through the emotions of missing my World Race family but there is a new family where ever I go!
Thank you so much for all the support I got through this journey!! I hope it inspired you and gave you some life!! The Lord is so good and this journey with him doesn’t end!!
