Every year for the past 24 years I have celebrated my birthday with my family! My mom cooks my favorite meal, family comes over, and we celebrate by fellowship, food, and cake! This year marks a first for me. I wasn’t home, I was in China. No meat loaf, mashed potatoes, and definitely no chocolate cake. It was hard to leave that tradition behind and try to enjoy it here with the new family God has given me. It helped that everyone was so loving and so willing to celebrate any ways I wanted to! I did eat western food, KFC, and I got a foot massage, I had multiple people bring me gifts and we ended the night with fellowship and Pictionary! It was a lot of fun! I was very blessed to be loved on by the people here and the people in Evansville, through the wonderful facebook! One of the main benefits was the fact that my birthday lasted around 36 hours! Haha I did miss my meatloaf and potatoes but I was provided with spicy chicken and French fries and a drumstick to top it off!
How does someone know the Father has “called” them to something? I have always wondered what people had to do in order for them to be called or spoken to by the creator himself. I figured you had to be a monk or a pastor of some sort. I remember when Jeremy and I were engaged and in pre-marriage counseling. Our pastor, of course, had to bring up China. This was a topic of so many discussions. Will we go back? (Probably a no) Do you want to go? (Definite no) Do you feel like the father would have you stay here in Evansville? (Yes, that is correct) I was not being “called “ to China. Nor did I feel like that was in my future. I have always known that the Lord has made my heart special and that I felt as if he was going to do something different through me than an average young adult. I never knew what that was, but always felt that deep inside. After one...
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