I made it to Gainesville today.
Thank you all for your prayers and support.
So my journey of Community Life begins. I’ve only been here a few hours and God has confirmed over and over that this is where I am supposed to be for the time being. I still don’t understand it but I am trying to just live through it and just be. Let go and let God – an interesting cliche that I am only now just starting to try to live out.
I have already gone through all of the emotions, laughter, tears, fear, and an unexplainable joy.
Laughter in watching all of my housemates at the dinner table scarfing down some homemade soup and enjoying eating food directly off the table.
Tears for all of the things/people that I have left behind.
Fear of the unknown.
Joy for the love that is pouring from my heart for these people in my new “community.”
Am I ready? Who knows. It doesn’t really matter, good or bad, I am here.
The last few years have been a time of brokeness for me and I really feel like this community is the beginning of my rebuilding. My cracked pot is in the hands of the potter and is slowly being re-made. It began in Africa. God stretched me and challenged me in ways I definately wasn’t expecting. So many things happened there that I still don’t fully understand but for whatever reason it’s part of God’s plan.
Now the fun begins.
