One year ago I was shaking with nervousness, racking my brain for any excuse not to set out on the adventure laid out before me. I was leaving behind friends, family, my boyfriend and my entire identity for the next four months. That just sounded perfectly terrifying. At night I dreamt of completely misfortunate events in this foreign place with a foreign language and foreign people. I begged God to change to me, to mold me, to make me uncomfortable. He did.
He put beautiful friends in my life.
He gave me three new families.
He humbled me with his creation.
He challenged everything I had ever known about Him.
He put justice in my heart and an awareness in my mind.
And now I get to go back. In a little under three months, my mom and I are making the trek down south to hang out pura vida style. It’s SO surreal, but I am SO excited.
Here’s to 2012.
by allison
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