By this time on Wednesday, I will be gone.
G-O-N-E.
5 days.
Actually less than that.
I'm leaving.
Gone for 11 months.
I’m leaving it all behind.
My friends. My family. My phone. My boyfriend. My old summer job. My present prospects for my dream nursing job.
My life as I know it.
I will be away from it all, absent from the details and events of the lives of the people that I miss most. I’ll be off and about, out of the country, unavailable to talk at any time of the day, unable to hug the ones I love.
My room will be vacant, my bed empty, my phone not in use, my car not driven, my Christmas stocking unfilled, my things untouched, the comforts of home abandoned.
I’m already changing. Some things are still classic Rachel, such as putting off lots of things to do and details to take care.
However, I still have no real plan for the last few of my days in America for almost a year…
I just figured out where I am sleeping tonight after 11 pm.
I have not started packing yet.
I haven’t gotten my prescription for my Malaria medication yet.
I just remembered to sign up for a different bank account today.
I probably have a hundred more things to do, but I don’t actually know how much I have to do still since I haven’t made a to do list yet—totally out of character.
The best part is that I’m not panicked.
Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord for so much more than just that. Thank You for Your peace. Thank You that I am secure in You. Thank You that You never fail me. Thank You that I can place my hope in You. Thank You that You have an endless love for ME. Thank You, Jesus.
Prayer Requests:
That I would be present and enjoy and soak up the last of my time in America.
That I would spend quality time with my friends and family.
That His peace would remain upon me.
That I would be gracious with the details that don’t appear as perfect to me.
That I would understand and experience Ephesians 3:14-21 more fully.
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”
