:: Going Down Memory Lane ::

I am waking up and I see my room, everything is familiar, everything seems normal – like the past seven months hadn’t happened but yet I feel different and changed. I go to my window and look out, the leaves of the trees are turning red, it is fall – so summer did happen and I didn’t just wake up from a dream! Crazy to believe that because when I think about my life in the past seven months it really seems like a dream! 3 countries I have seen, 47 people I have lived with, 19 beds I have slept in – one time of my life I will never forget! The time in Hawaii seems so far away, everything was so new, everybody was so new. It was a time of learning what I truly believe by being challenged of the the teachings and staying firm to some and looking new at other ideas of my believe - and getting to know strangers that are now my beloved friends! The world became a lot smaller to me seeing that I have friends all over now and I love it, I love them! Panama was an adventurous time about finding out how far you can go until you need encouragement and push through. I still can’t believe that we made a book and I still think about Anna Lucia or Alejandro, the lonely orphans that stole my heart out in El Valle. South Africa was a time of refreshing: seeing old friends, exploring the beauty of a rich culture and the stunning people of South Africa.

Yesterday I was sitting in front of my computer when I saw a piece of paper falling down from a cupboard in my room. It was a bible verse I had written down years ago ( I was eager to memorize bible verses that time – hasn’t worked out yet ;) ) – it is a classic - and it says: “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 I hadn’t even started to worry yet, I was only a couple of hours home – yet already a reminder that this was not an ending of some time but an end of a chapter of a big book to be written.