It’s official. I have been on the field for one year now. Never did I ever anticipate that God would bring me on this adventure to teach me, show me, love me, walk with me. I truly am blessed that He has showed me the nations, and probably a little stubborn that He had to take me there to show me and teach me. The World Race and my previous time in Peru has dramatically changed my life. Thank you so much for praying that He would mold me, protect me, and use me. I have been wrecked for the ordinary.
When I started my time in Peru one year ago, I put on the top of my journal entry page “Transformation Day _” never thinking that I would exceed 365. But here I am, in a Phuket hospital (one of my team members has dangue fever), thinking, praying, reading, laughing, loving, learning. This has been my life. A little chaotic, and a whole lot of craziness. Let me just tell you a liitle secret I have learned this past year…there is no bottom, no end to intimacy. It is challanging, dangerous, beautiful, and so dang fun. My entitlement is His, His glory radiates above and beyond. I have seen enough to fill up my eyeballs for a lifetime. But thru it all, HE IS LOVE. There is not one orphan, one starving, one sick, one homeless, one in need, one lonely, one scared, that He does not see and LOVE. Oh, did I tell you that HIS KINGDOM IS ALIVE AND THRIVING?!?!
Thank you so much for sticking with me. It means more then I could ever tell you. Oh by the way, I only need $420 left to raise!! And whoever keeps giving anonomously and knowingly, I pray blessings over you!! God is using you across the world- literally! Did you know that?
Thank you so much as well to my team and squad– Your personal investment in my spiritual growth has pushed me in the exact direction God wants me to go. Thank you for being obedient to His calling. I love and cherish all of you.
Thank you Lord for every lesson I have learned, every relationship built, every foreign and native missionary, every ministry site, every child and adult blessed and healed. May Your Kingdom continue to spread like raging wildfire. May my life be used to be a minister of LOVE. Thank you that You’ve known my heart before I could describe it myself, and You have used my time on the field to awaken Your dreams for me and my dreams for myself. Your word penetrates to my inner being, and out of that You equip my tounge and lips as instruments of prayer, communication, and adoration. I am forever indebted to You and Your love.
As each day comes, I find myself in deeper love, in more joy, in a greater desire to serve You and Your people then ever before. Voluntarily or involuntarily. I will never go back to former reasonings with self. I have lost the desire to be Rubie Palmer. I AM HIS AND HE IS MINE. This is who I am and who I will continue to be. This is my life. One year ago I wrote in my journal: You are it. In constant devotion I pursue You with eyes wide open. Not open to sin, but open to Your leading. My had in Yours, onward we shall trudge. You are my Hero.
I would be honored to go another year with You.
