Following

This song describes my life right now perfectly.  In one week I will be making my way to the beautiful country of Africa for one, whole semester! To tell you the truth the reality of it has yet to really hit me.  I have been home now for about a month, and am loving the comfort of home.  It is a place where I am most relaxed and I hate leaving it.  So this is where I am, I'm being pulled between the comfort of my home and the excitement of the adventure that lies ahead!  

This weekend I was able to see my dad and grandma, for the last time until I return.  It finally set in, and I realized I would not see the people I love the most until May.  I found myself crying as I dropped my dad off at the train station.  Goodbyes are always hard, especially when they are said to the ones you love the most.  As I drove home with the tears filling up my eyes (pathetic, I know), I realized I was looking at this with the wrong perspective.  I turned on this song and realized this semester is nothing to cry about.  Sure, it's far and sure, it's long, but I am going to Africa for a reason.

I was lucky enough to be accepted into a group of 35 students, including my close friends, to embark on the most amazing adventure of our lives.  I am going to experience things that no one has been able to experience before. And I am going to form relationships with people who are going to teach me so much about life.  This trip is going to be epic and I know what I experience in Africa will change my life forever.

And this is all part of the journey.  Leaving the place you love and are familiar with, to follow the paths the Lord has set in front of you.  No one said it would be easy, but no one said it wouldn't be worth it in the end.  So here is to the next semester, a semester where I stop leading myself and follow wherever the Lord takes me!