I've got 48 hours left in the US and I plan to spend quite a few of them, how else, shopping. Lots of great things to stock up on before I go. Usually I spread out the collecting and spending over the entire visit, but this one has been so busy that it's all been left till the end. Despite all the great products, what I love most about the US is the people, of course. Granted, what I love most about Thailand is the people and what I miss most about Argentina is the people. I think I just like people.
But people, also, are hard to fit in a suitcase. And people are altogether too fragile, as a family tragedy has taught us all too well this week. You can take every precaution, but so much of life is just unpreventable, unpredictable, and wholly unexplainable. And that is, in part, what makes it so nice to come home and reconnect with so many people I love- too often this moment is all we have.
My days in Michigan have been a deep breath, a step away from a life that I love, but a life also filled with challenges. I return to Bangkok this week with a renewed sense of purpose, in my life and in my work. I return with renewed passion to live and love how Jesus did, with a layer of healing and forgiveness between me and some of the hurts of last semester, and with a joy to jump back into teaching and into learning Thai. I also return with twice as much luggage as I came with, but that's to be expected :) These past few days the verse that keeps coming to mind is one from Isaiah, I don't know the chapter and verse off hand, but one that I have realized is just as much of a life verse as any other I have chosen: Yes, Lord, walking in your ways we wait for you, for your name and your renown are the desire of our hearts.
May my heart always look at Jesus and say Yes, Lord. May I walk in his ways. May I wait for him, for he has a time for everything under heaven. And may the desire of my heart always be his Name and his renown.
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