Where to begin....I started the month with spring break and a trip to visit one of my very best friends and favorite people--Misty Rose! It was an amazingly, refreshing trip with many moments of sheer bliss. The week flew by much quicker than I wished it had.
Andrea & Misty on the Flint River
My return home was filled with writing papers, reading Great Expectations and Billy Budd, Sailor, writing more papers, and somewhere in there, studying and taking mid-terms (let's not forget the work that piled up on my desk at the office while I was away for a week : - } ).
This past weekend was another busy weekend. I served as a chaperone for the youth group at our winter youth retreat - Blizzard. It was an amazing weekend--it always is. And like most years, I left feeling encouraged, strengthened, and blessed to have the chance to be a part of something so cool.
The speaker this year mentioned the verse that says without a vision the people perish and how God gives us small glimpses of that vision, but we never get to see the whole picture because we would not be able to comprehend the things He has prepared for us. Then, today at church, we were privileged to have missionaries from Tijuana, Mexico share with us. I was so touched by their story....basically they had believed God had called them to full-time missions, but it took 10 years for them to see that vision come to fruition. They also mentioned the same verse about vision that our speaker at Blizzard talked about, with many of the same ideas.
This weekend I was once again reminded that God keeps His promises. If He has given you a dream, it will come to pass--in His time. This was a message that I felt like God has been speaking to me for some time, and it was confirmed this weekend in every way. I am so grateful, and thankful that I know I can trust God...He knows my heart's desire, and I know that I am where I need to be until that day comes when I can see my vision (and your vision) fulfilled.
