This is a test post to see what it's going to look like!
Exactly one month from today will be my last day in Minnesota... indefinitely! Which is super weird. Yesterday, I had dinner with my sweet friend Christina and she convinced me that it will be a good thing to blog about the beginning of my new adventure as a Utahn. It'll make me feel more connected to home while also ensuring that I'm taking time for reflection as I settle into a very new lifestyle. Lately, thinking about all the things that will be different and new is so exhausting and overwhelming. I'm very fortunate to have so many people encouraging me and reminding me that this is clearly God's plan for me right now.
A very dear friend sent me this message yesterday:
I pray for you often, thanking God for you and for the way he uses you to love people. I know God has you where he can best use you and I am thankful for that. I pray he would continue to reveal himself and his love for you to you so that you can be confident of his love as you love and serve those around you. I know people are blessed by the way you love them.
I was so grateful for her encouragement and reassurance that God can use me wherever He has me. Then this morning, I was immediately given an opportunity to exercise that gift He has given me by putting me in a situation with someone I don't particularly care for. I was so blessed that I had just received that message from her so that I was able to recognize it as a growth opportunity rather than simply an enormous irritation.
May the Lord continue to bless me with an open mind and open heart as I use this last month at home to prepare for the next steps in my journey!
Fittingly, the verse of the day on YouVersion is Romans 11:33
"Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!"
¡Hablamos pronto!
