Journey of Faith

I was just about to write a letter to myself from a year ago, when I was leaving to go on a two-month missions internship to Clarkston, Georgia. Then I happened to look at my Facebook memories and realized that six years ago today was my last day of school at the American-British Academy in Muscat, Oman, before moving back to the United States. So, I decided to write a letter to myself six years ago. Dear Kelsey, Today you will wake up with a lot of emotions running through your body. It will be an odd change to the constant aching and pain in your heart that you have grown accustomed to over the past three years. Today, you will attend your last day of school overseas. Then, you will pack up the last three years of your life, and get on a plane to head back to what is supposedly your home. You're not going to know how to feel-that's okay. You will be excited about going "home" to the United States for the first time in three years. There are family and friends...

"He fills my life with good things, so that I stay young and strong like an eagle." -Psalm 103:5 But what about when He doesn't? One of my very best friends, who is 21 years old, has just received an earth-shattering health diagnosis. Her life has been turned completely upside down. Where are the good things in this? She won't stay young. She won't stay strong. She is going to lose her strength and probably her hair. He fills her life with good things, so that she stays young and strong like an eagle. He has filled her life with His salvation. Even if He chooses to take her home, she will be eternally young and strong like an eagle. This time has made me extremely thankful that we do not have to rely on the goodness of this life, because it is so limited. This life we have, this world we live in is so full of hurt and pain, that I think that I would be crushed by it if it were all I had. But as I lay my head down every night, I can rest assured that th...