This post is dedicated to those people back home and in other parts of Canada and America and Germany and Australia that I call my friends and love dearly, but havent really been talking to for the past seven months...
I knew that when I came over here I wouldnt be able to keep up good contact with more than a handful of people, which even that has proved to be a struggle with my internet, time zone and work schedule issues. But there are people who I wish that I got to talk to more or at all who have blessed me so much and who I am so grateful for... my Teapot leader team, Danni and Josh, Nathan, Annie, Jared... and everyone else, you know who you are. Friends from school that are doing exciting things this year... Lucy, Katrina, Hannah, Kelsey, Kate, Emma, Abby... again, you know who you are. The wonderful women and girls who I met over the summer here and loved... Elena, Avery, Chloe,Becca, Nicole, Georgia, Shelley... i wish i could be there next summer with you all.
The incredible family I have at my church back home... Laura, Daryl, Julie, Ross, Helen, Donald, May...i miss Hope more than I can say and am looking forward to being back with you all soon.
I know there are times that I could've tried harder to keep in contact and to ask how you are doing and tell you what is happening here...for those times I apologise and hope that when i get back we can make up for it and spend time together again. I also know though that if I tried to stay in contact with too many people then I wouldnt be fully present here either. I have this incredible year to live somewhere so beautiful in such a unique and dynamic community, doing a job that I will never again have the chance to do... so in a way, I feel that its okay to completely leave some of my other life back home, to walk away and not think about it, then to return joyfully to it at the end. in leaving my home life at home then I am able to create a home here and to be fully present and living in what God has provided for me here.
Finding the balance of this has been more difficult that I had anticipated though, so to those of you who I have hurt by not speaking to or emailing at all, i truly am sorry.
There will one day be a time when all of God's children will be together in the same place and the same time zone... i look forward to this!
And to that handful of people who have not let me be silent and have gone out of their way to talk to me and ask me how Im doing and set up skype dates even if it means they have to get up at one in the morning... thank you. You have meant more to me than I can try and describe. When you ask me questions and want to see photos and tell me stories about what is happening there.... i feel loved and known and sought after.
Olivia, Chloe, Jeremiah, Amber, Jenna, Vanessa, Jade, Mum, Dad, Kiri, Rachel, Valerie, Bridget...
Thank you. So much.
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