I was recently challeneged to describe this year in one word. I chose “exhilerating.” The word sums up this year for me in the absolute worst and best way.
On January 1st, 2016, I didn’t know all the experiences I would have in Southeast Asia. I didn’t know the joy I would feel as my cousin got married, and I didn’t know the heartache I would feel just a couple months later as my other cousin passed away. I didn’t know what it would feel like to graduate from community college and just a few days later start my Bachelor’s online. I didn’t know what it would be like to move to a familiar but entirely different town, and not be in the community I called home for almost ten years. I didn’t know I would get to have a family reunion with a part of my family I honestly felt so unfamiliar with and began to grow relationships with. I didn't know all the wonderful people I'd meet along the way. Through all the those things, God revealed himself in entirely new & fresh ways to me. Ways that allowed me to see his character, love, grace, & joy resound in not only my life but that of those around me and also in ways I may never know on this side of heaven. It is a beautiful thing to be a part of something so much bigger & beautiful than myself. I didn’t know, but God did. And, as hard as this is to say sometimes, God orchestrated this year in its beautiful, messy, emotional, amazing, difficult, joyful way, and I am who I am now because of it. Tomorrow, on January 1st, 2017, there will be countless events over the coming year that I don’t know are going to happen and how I am going to experience them, but what I am confident and sure of is God is faithful, constant, and he has already overcome any obstacle that I may face and is already preparing my heart and mind for it.
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