returning

Returning.. I have been studying the book of Ruth and it’s alot about returning.. and redemption.. I have returned to visit nepal.. a land I loved, a place God asked me to call home for two years.. a place God taught me much about living, thriving, dancing, crying, laughing, joy, tears, lostness and being found.. a place God taught me so much about me.. and whose I am in the midst of who He is. God gave me the blessing of returning…

I left thursday to begin the journey of returning back. This time instead of two years, two weeks. It is so different coming to a place where you know you are only coming two weeks, versus leaving everything you loved behind. It has caused great reflection in my heart.. and great joy as I think of the greatness of our God.
When naomi returned home in the book of ruth, she returned home bitter and broken. I returned back to nepal with a sense of joy, more boldness in my annointing, and more knowing God then I did a year ago.. because that is how God is. He takes us on a journey if we let him our journeys will always be forwards even when He takes us backwards.
I am so filled with joy as I come back to nepal. Sitting on the same roof doing my bible study, (don’t worry they are flat), seeing the same view but seeing God in new ways because God is always doing a new thing!

I have loved driving the purple pleasure again…laughing @ the cows, the people, the same ol pot holes and driving in the rain. I am actually loving the same ol’ sounds .. the banging pots, the bands, the people yelling nepalee.. I am loving speaking the language i worked so hard to learn. Praise the lord It has all come back and i can speak almost as rapidly as before.
And mostly i am loving seeing the people that i poured 2 years into. I wish you could have seen the stunned joy on my hindu nepalee mom and dad’s face. they kissed me over and over (not sure i liked that part) and said we knew God would bring you back. Then they had my old didi and nepalee best friend, mentioned many times before maya come to a restraunt. She had no idea I would be there.. the tears of joy made any amount i would have paid for a plane ticket worth it. Then seeing sita, the girl I discipled for 2 years everyday, who I loved and loved me back.. i jumped out from behind a door.. she cried and said it’s a dream.. it’s a dream.
It has been so awesome to see the nepalee family i loved.. and also to see the missionaries i worked with and loved.. to minister to them has been glorious. It is renewing in me an intense passion to minister to missionaries by just showing up where they are at and offering a listening ear.
Now for you guys that are reading.. don’t wrory coming back has renewed in me a cool sense of that I know I am EXACTLY where I am supposed to be in the center of God’s will in my ministry in america. That if I had stayed one day longer then what God had for me I would miss what God was up to in the amazing things He has done this year. But I am so glad God brought me back here also.. to rejoice in what He has done. as I was driving the purple pleasure I thought of how I was terrified to start driving in nepal and God gave me the strength to do it! As i have rattled off nepalee laughing and talking with my nepalee friends, I have rejoiced that God gave me the strength to learn a language…and helped me remember it. Each step I have taken being back in nepal makes me celebrate that for two years God brought me away to come away with Him to a place of unknown so I could know him. He taught me that I could do more through HIM in HIS strength then I would have ever thought possible. Looking back I rejoice in what God has forward for me. I am so glad to be on adventure with our God. Will keep you updated on my trip on this blog for you faithful readers that I have not posted in one year!