After lots of teary (more like sobby) goodbyes at baggage claim— I’m back in America. I kept looking around at the airport as everyone went their own ways, confused, because we always travel as a pack. 50 girls lugging around their packs like a giant family. Last night I slept in a room by myself for the first time in 9 months !!
Community has been such a huge part of this last year and I think that will be the hardest part of coming home. I don’t really have a lot of words right now about coming home so I’ll let Paul do the talking……
(Phillipians 3:7-9 the Message translation)
“The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I’m tearing up and throwing out with the trash—along with everything else I used to take credit for. And why? Because of Christ. Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant—dog dung. I’ve dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ and be embraced by him. I didn’t want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ—God’s righteousness.”
This is my year in a nutshell.
Yeah, I traveled and served but I just can’t stop saying “Jesus, you are every good thing about me”. If you have kept up with my year at all, just look a little deeper and all you will see is Jesus. He is in everything, imprinted in who we are all created to be. I didn’t really do anything. He is every good thing about this year and every good thing about me.
I’ve grown so much and learned so much about myself this year it’s crazy (cheesy I know). I want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported me. Thanks for reading along, praying along, and truly impacting so many lives through what the Lord did through me this year.
P.S I might write a few more blogs as I continue to process this year!!
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