My plan was to stop blogging after I returned from India. I thought that since my journey abroad was over for now, there was no need to keep blogging. However, the journey is not over, it has just begun. I am still processing and struggling with all that India opened my eyes and heart to. So, for my sake more than the few readers of this blog, I have decided to start blogging again in hopes of making sense of my scattered thoughts and scribbled sentences in my journal.
For the past month I have been reading through my India journal. It has been fun to be reminded and reflect on many of the things I forgot about. In my very first journal entry I shared my goals for the semester. I wrote these during a layover in the Portland airport. I had no Idea what to expect. Besides what I read on the internet and a little packet I got in the mail, I was basically clueless to what the next 3 ½ months had in store.
Exactly as written in my journal:
My goals: (a work in progress)
• Develop a deeper compassion & love for the orphans & widows God calls us to care for.
• Decide if teaching abroad is something I want to do.
• Grow in my relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Develop an understanding for the world outside of America.
I forgot I wrote these. I did not look back at them until a few weeks ago (usually results in major goal failure). However, if you were to ask me what I learned and how I grew, these four goals are exactly what I would tell you. It makes me smile how perfectly God placed these goals in my heart and how perfectly they were fulfilled.
For the past month I have been reading through my India journal. It has been fun to be reminded and reflect on many of the things I forgot about. In my very first journal entry I shared my goals for the semester. I wrote these during a layover in the Portland airport. I had no Idea what to expect. Besides what I read on the internet and a little packet I got in the mail, I was basically clueless to what the next 3 ½ months had in store.
Exactly as written in my journal:
My goals: (a work in progress)
• Develop a deeper compassion & love for the orphans & widows God calls us to care for.
• Decide if teaching abroad is something I want to do.
• Grow in my relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Develop an understanding for the world outside of America.
I forgot I wrote these. I did not look back at them until a few weeks ago (usually results in major goal failure). However, if you were to ask me what I learned and how I grew, these four goals are exactly what I would tell you. It makes me smile how perfectly God placed these goals in my heart and how perfectly they were fulfilled.
.the twelve. in washington dc about ready to fly halfway across the world
