He's Coming!

How do I summarize so much of my heart in one goodbye? We’ve walked almost four years of life together now—road trips and ice cream runs, shared lunches at school and countless afternoons hanging out.

I think I may have I sputtered out something about how following God is better than anything else. How each girl is loved and beautiful. How they are never alone, even in the darkest places. How they can never run too far from grace.

Will they know it, believe it to be true? They’re growing into young women now; they used to be little girls, and now they’re simply little friends (but taller than me still).

I’m choosing to believe today that as God has pursued me, He will pursue them. With a “never stopping, never-giving up, unbreakable, always and forever love." With a compassion that is constant, a heart that is pure.

I think it’s right that I’m leaving directly before Christmas—because in all the places I’m leaving, reminders and answers to my deepest prayers are filling the gaps—the lights and the trees and the gifts all whispering, “He’s coming! God Himself is coming! He’s said He loves us, that He’ll pursue us, and He’s proving it here! Let’s go worship Him!"

As this season is ending, I can’t help but think, “I wish I would have given more”—not in a regretful sort of way, but in a “God’s-promises-are-only-true-and-when-He-says-living-a-life-of-love-is-what-matters-most, He-knows-why” sort of way.

I’m closing out this season staking my life on these promises—that God pursues His people, that He loves with reckless abandon, that He has been and will be faithful to the end.

Thanks, God, for this season of SOS Ministries. Thanks, God, for coming, for loving me really, really well. Thanks for the snow, for Christmas, for Immanuel (God with us). God is with us!

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