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I‘m coming home.
In 5 hours, I’ll be boarding a bus with my World Race family, and we’ll head to the airport.
We’ll fly for 15 hours.
We’ll reach Los Angeles…
Go through customs…
Stand in baggage claim…
Realize that this past year really DID happen… it wasn’t a dream…
We’ll hear that woman say “the white zone is for the immediate loading and unloading of passengers only….”
And look at each other with a loss for words.
Because life changes. Again.
11 months ago we met in an airport in Florida on one end of the country… and now on the other end of the country and the other end of this year, we’ll say goodbye.
I won’t bore you with all kinds of sappy emotions in this blog (maybe I’ll save that for next week), but only to tell you a few things:
1) For every word of encouragement, prayer, thought, and bit of financial support you have given me, thank you. This year I stopped seeing the Kingdom, and entered into it. The entire course of my life has taken a significantly different turn, and I am so grateful to have had this opportunity. Thank you for loving me from afar and loving me through it. The work we did and the work done in me simply was not possible without you.
2) This isn’t the last you’ll hear from me via this blog… I have a few things in store to show and tell in the coming weeks. Don’t expect silence from this gal… Please stay tuned!
3) Everything, absolutely everything, is about the Kingdom of God. It is not about me. It is not about you. Jesus did not bleed and die on the cross so that we could all have a “nice, comfortable life”. We need this generation to rise up, wake up, and change and become the fire-breathing Kingdom brings radicals that have the kind of faith that WILL change the world. I’m committed to being one. I’m committed to finding others. Jesus, help me.
4) There are men and women who have given up their lives to see their dream come to pass: 100,000 leaders in this generation who will stop at nothing but to bring and breath Kingdom, find their tribe, and actually live the life Jesus Christ told us to. They have poured blood, sweat and tears into us, and we could not have grown as much as we did without them. Michael and Kathy Hindes, Seth and Karen Barnes, Andrew and Mo Shearman, and Gary and Lisa Black. We pray deep blessings on them and their families… it wasn’t without sacrifice that they have walked alongside of us. We love them deeply.
I think thats it for now. 🙂 I am about to go upstairs and meet the other crazies for our last time of worship together as a squad…. Please keep us in your prayers as we return home. I love ya’ll, and am thankful that we went on this journey together…
But really, this journey has just started. We’ve only scratched the surface.
Soon……
~kim
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