I absolutely love
this quote.
Simply put…I feel
it is a motto for when my life gets difficult here.
Sometimes I’d love
to say that moving to South Africa has been the easiest thing in my life
because I know it is where I’m supposed to be. But that isn’t always the case.
The ideal that I am exactly where God wanted me….it sometimes isn’t the comfort
I’m looking for.
I haven’t been home
in over 4 years. It isn’t that I do not miss my family because I do in a BIG
way. I just cannot afford the travel to go back home. For my husband and two
kids and myself…it will cost almost what I earn in an entire year! I know so
many people say, then I should just go back alone…but my family has NEVER met
my husband and they’ve never met my children. I’m not going to feel okay with
traveling back without them. My family needs to see my family, meet them and
experience them and us together to finally get closure on why I’m not there.
I feel that if I
travel back home alone…they won’t relate why I’m not there and they will still
feel like my family isn’t…real.
So, for now, we
bide our time while waiting until the day God allows us to travel back.
But the reality is,
God called me to South Africa. Originally, I thought I was called to be a
missionary here. But I quickly learnt that I still had a lot of growth in my
walk with God before I was prepared for that. I had planned the trip and
everything when God sent me spinning. I talk about meeting Hubby on my The Boys
page. Read all about it! ;-)
Life is life and no
matter what there are going to be days where it is just hard. There are going
to be days where we question what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. And I am
no exception.
Then I read this
quote.
See, as you’ve read…I
knew. Let me pause here. I knew that I would be coming to South Africa. The Holy
Spirit built up such a passion in my soul for this country. I couldn’t stop
talking about it for almost a year. There was not a single ounce of doubt that
I would leave my home to come here. What I was unaware of…was that it would be
forever.
But, I’ve always
tried to listen to the Spirit. When I met Hubby Dearest….I realized that my
plans were changing. And each time I’d talk about coming here…I’d say that I
was going to be here just a little bit longer. Until…I moved. And that was the
end of it. I’ve never looked back.
Does that mean that
sometimes I don’t wonder ‘Why in the HECK did you bring me here God?’ Besides
my gorgeous hubby and two amazing children! Why couldn’t I have had them back
home?
It gets hard…really
hard. And I miss my parents….and my friends…and my culture and my people. I
miss the familiarity because even after 4 years…I’m still sometimes an
outsider.
Then I read this
quote.
And it all makes
sense. My husband needed me here to fulfill his calling in the Lord. He isn’t
there yet…but you know what…he is getting there. I have every bit of faith in
him and the Lord. Hubby Dearest is going to a men’s camp this weekend and the
Lord has told me to pray. Because big BIG things are happening in Hubby’s soul.
There is a war waging for my family and we’re on the winning side people!
So….my greatest
happiness is with my family. Plain and simple. There is nothing in this world* that can give me more
happiness than my husband and children….and that my friends is where the worlds
greatest hunger is. It may be that in our lives we only touch one other family,
but that is where God needs us in this world….therefore
I cannot and will
not and have not ever regretted, despite all the longing, that I moved to South
Africa.
*I say this world
because God gives me the ultimate happiness but He is not of this world.
XOXxx
Shana Danae..
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