I was unpacking and setting up my room at home because the semester is over and I will be living at home for the next 2 months until I leave for Mali, West Africa. As I was unpacking I came across old journals so I decided to flip through and read some old entries. I am so glad that I have kept journals over the years. It is a great way to see how prayers have been answered and how God has been at work.
I read entries from my last few days in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa and the next few weeks of being home. It was in Jeffreys Bay where God first started speaking to me about changing my major and consequently changing the course of my life. I had forgotten how scared and unsure I was at first about making the switch and all of the trials I went through with my parents; because now I have so much peace and can’t see myself at any other place or doing anything else. Looking back, my main fear was leaving friends and family and everything that is comfortable and familiar to me. God is so good and has calmed those fears and has taught me to trust Him with my relationships. They are His anyway, not mine to keep a hold of and I have come to realize that distance and time cannot tear apart those who are knit together in the Lord. Jesus and bringing His Kingdom to the broken, the hurting, and the lost is worth laying down those relationships and taking a risk.
For me, Nursing was a safety net, something that had a lot of security in it. I had to lay it down and trust God with my life, for Him to provide for me. He has been faithful in that and I want to continue to be obedient to anything He calls me to.
So, now I am an Intercultural Studies major at Grace University, preparing to leave for Mali, West Africa for 6 months of studying and living among the Malian people. I never would have envisioned my life like this, but that is what happens when you let God take control of your life. He brings you on a crazy adventure with Him, and I wouldn’t want it any other way.