It’s been a
few weeks with an abundance of life lived. This little Midwestern town has held
and comforted my soul through some of the worst moments this 23 year old has
faced within my short life. Something beautiful happened here, these people,
this place, created a healing, a divine encounter of real people that shared
life together and came into friendship with someone foreign and unknown.
It’s cliché
to say that God knows what we need, right when we need it; the truth of that
statement should shake our core. The weeks I spent here in this small Nebraska
town where a deep need. I needed the people that came into relationship with me
here. The power of their stories, the individual needs and encounters of life
that we met together in a short time will never be erased from my mind. The
power of relationship and coming into connection with people is powerful, with
the ability to teach, change, motivate, and love.
I will go
home, back to a city of lights and dreams, of racing cars and screaming
children, sirens and crime. I will finish my time at a school that I deeply
love. I will resume my life as it was before I came to this place, but I will
be different from the love that I met here. I will be different because I met
my God here, through these people, and through this place.
God is with us.
The Sun is Rising
