Like a Child

The summer after my Freshman year at Covenant, I decided to move to Pensacola and work there for the summer. I knew no one living there, I had never lived near the beach before, and I had a new job. Everything was new- but I needed that. I needed new tasks, new faces, and new ways to step into deeper levels of dependence and trust in the one who is forever faithful!

Dependence became a theme for my life during that season in Pensacola. 

He continued to teach my about dependence in him as I became an RA, as I made an effort to befriend high schoolers, as I taught ESL for the first time, as I knocked on door's of people that I did not know, and most recently as I bought a ticket to Jordan.

He continually asks me to trust and depend in him as a child would.

Recently I have found myself thinking, "I need to speak Arabic," at least a hundred times a day. When I think about speaking Arabic, I think about being fluent- not just understandable. And to say it bluntly, I just don't speak well yet. And so I notice the way he is once again asking me to DEPEND on him and on others. He is asking me to come to him like a child who believes that he will provide all I need.

"Be like a child. 

Put yourself in a position of humility, 

of having to learn from."

I consider him, who knew everything, and yet decided to come in a form where he had to listen and learn how to talk. He had to learn the names of things in the kitchen and how to buy and make food. When I consider him, the task of learning a new language becomes a joy! 

Thank you all for loving me well in the midst of transition. 

I miss you all and thank God for you! 

[A LITTLE REMINDER: please be very intentional with the words you use. I work for The Hope Project, which is a psycho-social company working among refugees. We do not say our political views- so please do not post yours on any of my social media or e-mail. A good rule of thumb is don't say anything that I do not say in my updates. Thank you for being careful.]