Twelve months. 365 days. Hard to believe I've been living on this big white hospital ship for that long. A year ago this week I worked my last shift at Cook Children's hospital, packed up my apartment, and with a great step of faith set out on the journey of a lifetime.
So much has happened yet time has passed quickly. I've lived in Togo, Texas, Ghana, the Canary Islands and Guinea. I've been through 2 big screening days with Mercy Ships and several small ones, watched surgeries, changed dressings and loved on patients like crazy! I've flown more hours then I'd like to count, I've sailed the bluest seas, hiked the greenest mountains, swam in breathtaking waterfalls, sun bathed on beautiful beaches, witnessed extreme poverty, met beautiful people, experienced miracles, and made life long friends. I've laughed, loved, cried, rejoiced, been stretched, challenged, filled up and poured out more times than I can count.
And God has been at the center of it all. I have prayed time and again, waiting in expectation of what God will do...and he continues to provide. This has been a year of great highs and low lows but I can say in confidence this is where I'm suppose to be for this time. A.W. Tozer writes, "There is no greater quest than the pursuit of God." I don't know where the next year will take me, but I am excited! I can't step into the future or relive the past, so I will live today. And what a great day it is!
Psalm 143:8 "Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul."
Isaiah 42:5-7 "This is what God the Lord says - the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it: I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness."
