If you're reading this it means you discovered my travel blog for this summer! Yay!! While I'm traveling, I hope to be able to post weekly, and share about my adventures, and what the Lord teaches me through them this summer. I've been so, so overwhelmed with the amount of support I've received, from my friends at school, from both my home church as well as my college church, even friends back in Wheaton who I haven't seen in years. It truly takes a village, and right now I'm very grateful for mine!
Tomorrow marks my very last day being an official resident of Boone, oh man just saying that makes my heart hurt. Over the past 2 years, I have been so abundantly blessed by the community I've found in Boone. Now this community isn't just any old community, it's a community of people who force you to go to the doctor when you feel like death but don't want to admit it(fun fact:30 minutes later I was transferred to the ER...), it's a community that sends soup when you're under the weather, or buys you a cupcake because they know how much your week has sucked. This is a community where Saturdays are for epic game nights, Tuesdays are for watching the bachelor, and most nights you can find someone in the library, saving the table where nothing will actually get done. This community is one where we hold hands and sing the doxology every Sunday night, but 30 minutes later get hit in the head playing death hack by the very same person. This is what I've learned TRUE community should look like. It should look like a group of people, going through life together in the good, the bad, and the ugly. This whole month has been one of slowly beginning my goodbyes, but at the same time reminding myself, "Don't start. It's not time yet." Well, here we are. My room is packed, my bathroom's clean, but my heart isn't ready for it. My heart isn't ready to spend 9 weeks apart from these people who know me and love me so well. I know I am spiritually prepared and mentally prepared, and I know that leaving this town is what the Lord has called me to do for this summer, but it's never going to hurt any less. The hurting means that I did something right, I found the people who know me and love me and see me as I am. There's no going around it, tomorrow is going to be hard. But then the sun will rise again, and I'll begin preparing for my next great adventure, thankful for the time I had in Boone, and the friendships I made. As I begin my next adventure, I am comforted by the verse Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future."
<3 Always,
Rose
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