Flying away.... again

Here we go again, in some ways it's the same, but then I'm different and I have such a peace now about leaving. I leave for South Africa tomorrow. As usual, there's more questions than anything else running through my head. Besides processing going on to the ship, I'm realizing that this stage of my life is slowly coming to a change. College, as I've known it, is over. I know I've been given so much that I have the responsibility to use my gifts, experiences, failures, to the fullest. I'm not sure what that means, but it's vital that I do not just waste my life doing what I want to do. There's so much more to it.

C.S. Lewis had an amazing grasp on God. My vision, my thoughts of Him have been transformed and vitalized through reading the Chronicles of Narnia. Through a children's novel, I was able to experience and know some of God's attributes like I've never realized before. I'm excited to spend the next month reading his other works to learn even more.

It's not supposed to be hard to say goodbye... but I think it's a deeper sadness maybe. It's not pain or even really sadness, it's more of the knowledge that dearest people close to me are going different directions. It's an excitement, but in the midst of a solemn ending. Three years ago, I know nothing of this life or of these people.... now... they have changed me, pushed me further than I thought I could ever go.

Here we go... each on are own adventures with the Master.