For any of my teammates, or friends I’ve met in Mongolia, who are reading this, you are probably going to recognize the phrase “fully loved”. This is because these are the words on the only shirt I had for a week while my bag was lost & left in Ulaanbaatar. Yesterday I put this shirt on for the first time since then because I was already soooo tired of wearing it day after day.
For so long I have looked for love and acceptance in all of the wrong places. In people and things I have looked for the love I thought I deserved. I tried to earn the love that I wanted and thought I needed. I loved to be loved but it wasn’t ever fulfilling. But something I realized on a walk back to the coffee shop that we have been teaching Enlglish in, was that I am fully loved by the Lord. This simple yet very significant saying is something that I have seen over and over again but never fully understood until now.
All along, even when I thought I was as far away as I could be from Him, He was there. Not only was He there, He loved me through it all. In the deepest and darkest times, He was loving me and never left me, not even once. Learning to live this truth is SO hard. It is one thing to say that I accept the love, but to walk in it is another. This year I am pushing myself and leaning in on the LOVE and GRACE He has shown, and continues to show me along the way.
I am FULLY LOVED and so are YOU.
I am starting to wrap up my time in Erdenet with our first ministry host and can’t believe our first month is almost done. With that being said I am still in need of around $6,000 to stay on the field. Please prayerfully consider partnering with me to keep spreading LOVE to all nations.
