Hello friends! I wanted to give you a quick update on my life, because some things have changed a little bit!
I recently got home from an eight day trip to Canada to see one of my best friends from the Bible school I went to a couple years ago. It was such an incredible time of adventuring, reconnecting with old friends, laughter and rest. While there though I really struggled with the idea of leaving a short nine days after I got home to head to Georgia for CGA.
Have you ever taken a personality test? Before the Race we all had to take one. I had to answer several questions that would determine whether I was an introvert or extrovert. When I completed the test my results said that I was 50-50 split on introvert/extrovert. I began to figure out what that meant while on the Race. When I am on the go, surrounded by people, I enjoy it, do well with it and get energy from it. But at the same time, when life’s a little slower, and there aren’t as many people around, I realized I enjoy that too, and I find energy in the quiet, calm, “alone-ness” of it all.
While in Canada I really heard Papa say I needed to be home, to be an introvert and feed that side of me for a season. So, I am choosing to listen. I decided last week instead of leaving for Georgia this month (read: tomorrow), that I would stay home in good old Arkansas for this semester and go to Georgia/Guatemala in January. But in really praying about this, I realized that Papa was giving me a season to rest, but also a time to be intentional.
There are so many things I have wanted to do, people I have wanted to visit and get to know better at home that I simply haven’t had time for.
My little brother was so upset when I told him I would be gone for his entire sophomore year of college, missing out on yet another year of theater productions and lunch dates.
My friend and her parents are building a house and won’t be done for a while. She has been moving from house to house and I realized if I was home this semester I could invite her to come and live at the “Pere Chalet” as I have begun to call it, until her house is finished.
I’ve thought about doing cake decorating classes with my mom, that we have talked about doing since high school.
Or going to visit some of my best friends and see their new house they’ve invited me to and I’ve never had the time to see. Their first ever house that they have poured so many hours into. I want to see it and celebrate with them.
I thought about doing childcare for my church, the same job I’ve done every year that I’ve been in Arkansas since freshman year of high school. Where I get to love on children, some of whom I’ve known since before they were born and taught their siblings years ago. A job where I get to know other women of all ages as I work beside them.
So I have chosen this adventure. A season of choosing to be intentional and say yes to whatever craziness Papa may bring. Here, in Arkansas, at home.
With that, I will still be doing CGA in January in Georgia/Guatemala and I am still so excited about it! I will still be raising support for that, and hopefully will be designing and selling some fun shirts for that!
Thank you all for reading, for praying for me and being so supportive! I really do appreciate each one of you!
