Recently I have been praying about where exactly God will take me so that he can open even more doors for finding support. I have had some trouble getting started raising support and so I have been considering trying to move somewhere that I can live rent free. I wasn’t getting much of an answer one way or another, but then I went to church. We had a guest speaker who about to move to New York to start a church plant. His whole lesson had to do with Jesus’ journey through Samaria.
Many of us have heard the story of the Samaritan woman at the well, whom Jesus speaks to about the living water. What most people don’t focus on is:
1) that the Samaritan woman was an outcast among her own people and
2) Jesus did not need to go through Samaria to get to Galilee but he was called to go into a dark place that he knew he would find hardship and most likely not be welcomed.
I have been considering a move to Albuquerque but I do not have a church family there to support me so logically it would make more since for me to stay in San Angelo. However, after hearing the sermon about the Samaritan woman and how Jesus went out of his way to be the light in a dark place, I was enlightened to the fact that Albuquerque is my Sumaria. It is my dark place where I will be able to shine my light brighter than ever before.
I think of myself as a lamp. If light is surrounding a lamp, like it does during the day, then the lamp is barely visible. However, if a lamp is lit in a very dark place it can be seen miles away. For me San Angelo is the bright and sunny place that surrounds me with warmth but doesn’t allow my light to shine brightly. Albuquerque is my dark room in which my light may be a beacon to others around me.
So I’m moving to Albuquerque at the first of August. I will be living with my godmother so that I can focus entirely on raising support. If this is the first you are hearing about this please don’t be offended, I haven’t told many people as I wasn’t positive until now that I would be moving.
San Angelo has been a major stepping stone in my life and I would not be who I am today without the people in this wonderful place impacting my life. I will miss dearly all of the friends and family I have come to know and love in my four years here. But this isn’t goodbye, simply see you later.
This transition will be difficult, but I can’t wait to see what God has in store for my future!
