I can hardly believe it but our final debrief has come and gone!
It was a good time of processing this year and what it means for when we go home, as well as reminiscing. Not that I am done processing, but it was good to get the ball rolling.
We will be boarding our last plane together as a squad in the morning.
I will be spending the night in Ft Lauderdale and will be arriving in VA Thursday afternoon.
It is so odd to think that a year has gone by.
It seems like last week I nervously stepped off the plane in Africa, not having a clue of what was in store for me. This year has been one of the hardest of my life for sure, but it has also bee the best!
As my brother David told me before coming on the race: “Most anything worth doing is going to be hard.” How right he was!
It was worth it and I don’t regret it for a second!
I am coming back home a different girl. I am coming back home a healed girl.
I am coming home a wrecked girl for the ordinary. The Lord has totally changed my view of the world and my view of him up side
down. I want to come back home a trusting girl who walks in these things and
does not let the familiarity and rehashing of hold crap suck me down. I am
done. For I know anything done on my own effort will fail and I need Him for
everything. If I have learned anything this year it is that I am totally
incapable of doing any good on my own and how much I desperately need Him!
Although I am very very excited to see my family and friends and to catch up with them, it is bitter sweet to leave. But I know that the journey pulls me forward to the next step.
Here is a picture from our final Banquet. (Don’t we clean up nice?!)
Each one of these people have a very special place in my heart and I will miss them immensely — more than they will ever know!
Love you crazy kids — and know that my door is always open! 
My crazy Phoenix teammates! I am going to miss not waking up to these faces! 
If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right
mind, it is for you. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced
that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those
who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and
was raised again.
2 Corinthians 5:13
