Here we have been in Antigua, Guatemala for about 4 days now, and at the beginning it was really hard for me to realize that this journey has started. I have left all that I know back home and have stepped out on this journey. I have never been so homesick as I was the day that I left. I missed family and friends right from the start, the moment I boarded the plane for Miami. “Is this really happening? Cause this seems like a dream.” I know that God is going to move, it has been said over and over, but I have no idea what is going to happen over this next year, I do know that I won’t come back the person that I was. I have already been changed.
There was a song this hit me hard one night, “You give and take away” were the lyrics that struck me right to the heart. We have a God that loves us so much and He gives us so much, in that he also takes away things. We don’t always understand the process or the reasons why we are just asked to trust, follow, and believe. I feel like so much is going to be given to me on this journey that I can’t even imagine, it just hurts to know the things that are being taken away during this. He never said this was going to be easy, he never said that I wouldn’t hurt, he said “Come and follow.”
I want to change because I know that His plans are better than any plans that I could ever come up with o
n my own, and I have only seen a slight glimpse. All he says is “Come to me” Lord I say yes and I am going where you may lead.
“Yes! This is really happening.“ My team Ekklesia Epikos, a group of 7, my family for the year and the years to come. We are leaving for Panajachel, Guatemala tomorrow, we will be on our own for the month while all the other teams will be paired up. There we will be working on building a church and also working within the church teaching.
Live in the Love.
