Today marks a week since I left for Liberia. I have to admit, it sure does feel like much more than only 7 days! 5,000 miles away always begins to feel like another world. A different life. I'm beginning to slowly weave the two worlds together, each trip making it easier.
Over the past 7 months, I have truly grown to love where I live and who I do life with everyday. During the last four trips when I would come back to America, I would just wish for the time to pass quickly so I could get back to Liberia, where I belong.
This time was different. This trip was different. I was excited, but in a whole new way. Ready to see my Liberian friends and family. Not ready to say goodbye to my American friends and family. God has put so many new godly relationships in my life that it's hard to say goodbye to those, if only for a few months. I know that I will continue to come and go whenever God asks and I know that it will never get any easier, probably only harder.
But I pray that time does not go as quickly this year. I want to soak up every moment as much as I can. Every laugh, every smile and every tear. Wherever I'm at, I hope that I experience everything as if I had chosen it myself. Every moment as if it's my last.
I will enjoy where I am; because where I am, is where God is. Right now. Here. In the present. So, I must live for today, everyday.
I will seek the Kingdom in every moment, for when I do that, I will find myself hopeful of what lies ahead. I will find peace and joy within my soul. I will be able to love so much that my heart will be like a swinging door; love coming in and love flowing out.
Because when you seek the Kingdom of daily, God will lead you to places you never dreamed of being, doing work you never imagined you could do.
...and when God send you 5,000 miles away because He has prepared you to teach the world about His Son's life, everything else that seems to be a big sacrifice, is really no sacrifice at all.
Matthew 6:33
"But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."
