FAITH-ING IT IN TO 2018 🍀

" I know that you can do all things and that no purpose of yours can  be thwarted....  I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes sees you."

Job 42: 2 & 5

To experience Christmas and New Years here in Samoa is beyond me. Over and over again I see You planned ahead. Going through what was a year of searching and questioning and falling, and crying, time and time and time again,  I see You planned ahead.

That Sunday I wept and pleaded, "if I really am Yours, like really Yours; if You know and are listening like You always do; if You care like i claim to know that You do; if these songs of faith and boldness I sing are what Your Word says it to be; You dont have to do this BUT BECAUSE YOU CAN Lord, take me somewhere out of here, out of this."

Here in Samoa I have had the beautiful blessing of a stranger turned sister named Faith. I reckon its such a God thing to have her named this to constantly remind me of faith in the midst of things that seem beyond us. Being in Samoa for a bit now was and is a teeny weeny tip toe of faith in itself and so her being the friend to take me around and count me family away from my comfort zone, is seriously God's generosity brought to life.

Faith does that. Faith is scary but good. Faith can be hard but rewarding. Faith may look tough but is always humbling (making me cry like an idiot). Faith is loving and generous when its all you've got in this life. Faith is sweet. Faith is kind. Faith is powerful. Faith is real. Faith is now. Faith is current; always present. Faith IS - not was, not will, not maybe.

For everything I may have lost hope in this past year, faith reminds me Im in Samoa if not for faith.

So Today I'm so grateful for Faith - the conviction of things unseen.