You guys, I just have to share with you! I just can not contain it—I am in love! I am in love, I am in love! And I don’t care who knows it!
We’ve been in Kenya for just about two weeks and my Lover has just filled my heart.
One of the things I have struggled with most while being on the World Race is that the way I would normally spend time with my Best Friend was kind of taken away from me. Jesus and I like to go on secret adventures back at home, we like to go on walks alone together or spends hours in a coffee shop, or sing loudly while driving…all these things are no longer possible for me.
But, ha, I sit here today—so far from home, so far from any sort of normalcy or familiarity, just in love again.
As early on as Malaysia on this crazy trip, the Lord was telling me that He wanted to find new ways for us to be together. That He wanted to show me new ways to be ‘alone’ with Him. And He has, but I’ve been pretty weird about it. I have been ignoring His promptings to go and be alone with Him; I enjoy being with people so much that I have more often than not chosen to be with my new community instead of going off by myself to be with my Love.
As we are now about half way through the Race, the Lord has started hollering at me. He has been showing me verse after verse about how Jesus went off by Himself to be with His Daddy and He has been displaying His beauty all around me. He has been beckoning my soul to come and have an adventure with Him.
So today, as my team got to go have an adventure in the beautiful city of, Kitale, I decided to stay back. I thought I was staying back to sort through some crap, but in reality, I was staying back to hang out with my Best Friend.
I’ve done nothing today. Nothing but sit and read and talk to Him and He’s brought me back. Joy is restored, peace is overflowing, my God is the same in Omaha as He is in Kenya. My relationship with Him is the same wherever I go. It’s like David says, I could go to the depths and He would be there. I can not escape from the love of my God.
I can be so far from home, but my Daddy, my Best Friend, He’ll be with me, calling me and beckoning me to come on an adventure with Him.
Home is where my Jesus is…so I can be at home anywhere.
I love you Papa! Thank you for being so near and so funny and so beautiful. BAH! I wish I could type in tongues because I can not express with words the Peace and Joy that are consuming me right now.
