Ahhhh! It’s officially 2014, which means THIS is the year that I will leave all familiarity behind and explore, discover, and learn in places I never thought that God would take me… And try not to get sunburnt while doing so!
The year 2013 was full of great moments: the house I shared with five bright, hilarious friends at school; the mission trip to Honduras; the amazing opportunity to be one of the Program Directors at Knox Camp; the busy fall semester of my last year at Queen’s University in dance classes and Athletes in Action (the intervarsity Christian group on campus), and various spontaneous (yet unforgettable) events that filled this autumn. To top it off, the holidays were so full of friends, and family (and food!), that I could hardly stand the thought of Christmas break ending! Admittedly, the more I intentionally connected with the people I love, and the more I paused to appreciate the many ways that God has blessed me, the more that I didn’t want to leave to go back to school. Let alone leave the country for 11 months.
It’s so crazy how I can be so excited one moment, and so terrified and overwhelmed the next! SO terrified and overwhelmed that I needed my mom to read The Hobbit to me before bed for 4 nights (…okay 5…if you count the first night back at school that my mom read it to me over the phone…true story). But that’s not the point. The point isn’t that I get scared or that we all get scared. It’s that we can be comforted – that I can be comforted. One thing I do know – despite starting off the year with this rollercoaster-of-a-mindset – is that the journey has officially started. And I am COMMITTED! That’s right. (…that was more so to stamp out any doubt in my head than to try convincing anyone reading this…)
You know WHY I’m committed?
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