finally, an update?...ish

I have nothing new to say about school. I love teaching art.

Nothing new to say about Kuwait.
If home is where the heart is, then...it's home now.
Canada will always be home, but Kuwait is now, also, home for me.




I feel that my life has gone from "here I am on an adventure in the Middle East" to "here I am on an adventure seeking God and His plan for my life".


Who knew that a muslim country is where I would grow so deeply in my love of Christ? My desire to read and study His Word? My yearning to know Him more personally? The acceptance of the Holy Spirit?


When I said 4 years ago that I would never live overseas...I think that that very moment God started preparing me for this part of my life. Never say never...God likes to blow away the little boxes that we place around Him - He's so much bigger than anything we could ever imagine. He made life in Sherbrooke so emotionally difficult, life in North Bay so thirsty for excitement and life in Northumberland so uncomfortably comfortable that there was so obviously no other choice when the offer came from Gwen to teach in Kuwait.


All the plans that I had ever made for my life have long since disappeared. Plans that I try to make now seem to fall apart before I can even start imagining details. And it's okay. Because God has been faithful every step of the way.




Anything that I could possibly imagine cannot even come CLOSE to the things that God has planned for my life...He's proving that more and more every day. He's been proving it for years...and I've finally (somewhat) let Him have control.


It hasn't always been easy, and God doesn't promise that it will be easy, and I'm sure I will still cry my eyes out every time it comes to leave home, but I feel as though I am where God wants me to be...right now, at this moment - and He promises to be with me through it all, no matter what may come, and He will bring good out of any situation or circumstance that may arise.




Every day I learn a little bit more...and every day I also learn that there is even more to learn. I can't wait until Heaven when I can spend every second basking in the glory of God and learning about every detail of his amazing creation....and I don't think an eternity would be enough to learn it all.



Hallelujah.