A little advice, when dealing with your passport always take it in person. Don't send it through the mail, or more likely Canada Post. They had lost my passport, and after a week it was found in Ottawa. Six hours from where I live, but customer service said they would hold it at the post office and myself, my sister, and my best friend Ben drove to Ottawa only to find it wasn't there anymore. The lovely man, Louie, called other post offices in the area and finally found it at another one, but they had scanned it, but didn't know where they had scanned it to. So Louie called Toronto control to have the tracking number flagged in case it went through them, and I in the meantime called my hometown post offices to see if it had shown up anywhere there. No luck there.
Wouldn't you know it though….days after my trip to Ottawa, I open my mailbox to find my passport just sitting there. I had already cancelled my flight to Atlanta, so then what? All I could do was wait, cry, wait some more, cry some more and wait. The beauty is that there were blessing amidst the mess. I was blessed to spend some time with my grandma which was was so amazing and I was blessed to spend time with old friends who are still current friends and are simply amazing. Certainly not least my family, my loved ones, the ones who hold my heart. Those people who no matter what saying goodbye to is like a knife to the heart.
Can I just tell you that I am kind of an emotional wreck leaving people I fall in love with. I even bawled saying goodbye to my little kitty cat, Peanut Butter. She's pretty much the cutest cat ever. Trust me though when I say I cried much more for the others! Saying goodbye, going through security, making one last wave goodbye for 11 months, and crying on the plane. The love though that my heart feels for them each of them. My momma Grace, Jennifer, Stephen, Steph, Ethan, Ava and Benjamin….and everyone else who has blessed my life with their presence!
Leaving was hard, but not going would be harder. To refuse the chance to make a difference, to love ones that feel unloved, to let God be the centre, to lead my paths, to love through me because that's the only way I can make a difference.
