What It Feels Like to Know You've Really Been Changed...

About 5 months ago now

(WOW!  I can't believe 

it's been THAT long!)

I ventured to Ecuador

with an organization 

called Visiting Orphans

and for a little over a week,

that is exactly what we did...

We visited

and loved

and held

and prayed over

and played with

and fed

a bunch of really amazing kids

who happen to also be orphans.

During that trip

God changed me.

He broken my heart 

with the things that break His

and opened my eyes

to the reality of the world around me.

God pursued me

and stretched me

and forced me out 

of my comfort zone

in order to 

meet with Him.

Ever since..

I'm changed.

Different.

What matters to me

is different...

What I think about

is different...

How I view things

is different...

I had a mountain top experience

and something inside me

fundamentally shifted....

and yet...I have to admit,

I worried coming back

that this change would be fleeting

and that after a week or a month

I would forget what I learned

and go back to and old way

of life and thinking.

Today I received a letter in the mail

from myself

that I wrote

the last night

of this trip.

In it were 5 things

I learned and didn't want to forget

when I got back home.

Things about 

stepping out in faith

and what life's really about.

Things like using what God's given me

and not wasting it

and really just pressing into God.

As I read the letter

and thought over just the past few days

I realised...

I haven't forgotten

and the good work God began in me

on that mountain top in Quito

He's continued ever since 

I've arrived Home...

and I believe

He'll continue that good work

until it's completed!

That's pretty Exciting!