Home Sweet Home

I don't know how typical this is for someone my age, but I almost feel like all I do is move.  Since I started college, I have moved a total of 5 times.  I am about to start my senior year.  Needless to say, I feel like the definition of a nomad.  For those of you who have tried to keep up with me via snail mail…I do apologize. :)

For those of you who do not know, I moved almost 2 months ago.  Of course I was a little irritated because once again all of my things are in boxes and I have no clue where anything is…Well, I do now.  For me, one of the hardest things about growing up has been moving out into the big world on my own. 

Whenever I go back to my parent's house, my room that I grew up in is now my little sisters room and all of my things (that I don't have with me) are in boxes in the attic.  Oddly, I'm okay with this.  It's sad because I realize that I'm a big girl and I'm never going to live at home with my parents again, but its SO exciting!  I'm a big girl and I'm kind of on my own! 

The frustrating things is that I'm tired of moving and I know that in, what's not less than a year, I will be packing my things up in boxes and be moving into a new home…which I have no clue where that is at the moment.  But that's OKAY! I have a while to figure that out.

When it came time for me to figure out my living situation for this next year I was really concerned.  My best friend who I was living with was graduating and moving back to Georgia and everyone else had pretty much found a place to live.  I wasn't exactly sure if I wanted to stay in the same house or try to find somewhere else.  I prayed and prayed for God to lead me in my decision.  There were pros and cons to just about every situation that arose and I was completely BEFUDDLED (love that word)! 

God always answers prayers…and He always surprises us with His answers.  One day I was talking with some friends of mine and Zack who have 3 beautiful children from Peru.  I really love them all so dearly.  He is the youth minister and the church I am attending and he and his wife have played such a major part in my life and mine and Zack's relationship.  They really are some of our best friends!   Anyways…they invited me to come and stay with them for the year.

Little did they know it was an answer to so many different prayers that had been on my heart for quite some time.  Of course I asked them a million times, "Are you really sure about that?!"  Long story short, here I am…another resident in their home!  And if you haven't talked to me recently…I'm LOVING every single second of it! 

I love hanging out with their 2 daughters and letting them paint my fingernails many different colors.  I love watching kids movies all the time and listening to the crazy things they have to say.  I really love being around a family who love the Lord as much as they do and who is willing to share their lives with a broke college student who doesn't have as much to offer.

Never in a million years did I expect to be living where I'm living given the circumstances that I was in over the past few months.  Circumstances filled with confusion and uncertainty and a little fear.  I had no idea what God had planned for me and I still don't see the whole picture…and I won't until I see Him face to face.  But I do know that He DOES have a plan for me and he will always take care of me.  It may not be in the way I expected, but it will ALWAYS be better than I could have every imagined.   

"And we know that ALL things work for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
-Romans 8:28