Hello Friends and Family.
This last year has been a journey. It has been an adventure with its ups and its downs, its heartaches and victories. Hope has been a constant and the Lord has brought healing, growth and great change into my life. I have finished another entire year of school, I have been actively involved in my local church Hill City Church VA, I have embraced a community of people through many ups and downs and they have walked with me through this journey. I know I have been a little bit Internet silent over this year and for that I am sorry. The Lord has done many great things and changed my heart in greater ways than I can explain. Tomorrow I leave for Training Camp for the second time. Tomorrow I will leave for Training Camp with the Lord’s confidence. I will begin again this journey knowing that who I am is solely in Christ. I am new, restored and I am heard. I am valued in Christ. I am not alone. I am safe. I am approved by His blood. This journey I will embark on tomorrow is not a journey I will travel alone.
Thank you for standing with me this year, for praying for me and praying with me, for giving me space to heal and to grow and space to make mistakes. Thank you for being my community, being my accountability and asking me the really tough questions. To many of you, thank you for late night talks, for Godly advice and for pointing out the lies of the enemy. Thank you for reminding me that who I am is in Christ. Thank you for sometimes giving me the necessary stern talks and hard lectures, thank you for supporting me on this journey so far and for loving me well. You are all family and the Father knew I would be on this journey and He knew He would give me all of you to walk through this journey with.
I ask you to continue to pray for me as I take part in Training Camp. I ask that you would whole-heartedly support me no matter the outcome of Training Camp and what the Lord decides is best.
It is well with my soul because the King of my heart is the King of this earth.
Love
-Emily Reina Kerkhof
