This entire mission experience has been an amazing time of learning for me. I came here with a desire to show a school of Kenyan children God's love, but He has been using this trip from the moment I felt the urge to leave home until now to show His love to me in very real ways. He has shown me how to trust in His providence, how to find joy and peace in His love, and how to be patient for all things to happen according to His timing. Now that I've finally made it here, I can't believe that I am so close to the end of my time already and am torn between excitement to come back home sadness to leave the home I've made here. There are even moments when I intensely wish I could just move all the people in my life back home here to Kenya. There are only eight teaching days left in store for me here, but I often tell myself (or God keeps telling me) that only He knows what He has in store for my future.
Maybe I will spend the rest of my life in Texas sharing God's love in my hometown, or maybe my family will live a missionary life in a country I have yet to visit. All that I really know is I can always trust that wherever I go, He goes before me.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6
No comments:
Post a Comment