Time to Reflect

I've been home for almost two weeks now. It has been great to spend time with family, friends, and time by myself to just relax and reflect on what has happened over the past five months. I made a decision to change my life because I felt myself getting pulled towards Honduras. I went to Honduras to be a teacher but within a few weeks I was head over heels in love with Breaking Chains homeless ministry and it wasn't long before I started working with them. I love the ministry I work for, we have an amazing team in place with people from all over the states working together to help those who have trouble helping themselves.

I knew when I came home I would miss the kids but I didn't know exactly what that meant. It is seemingly impossible to put into words the feeling I get when I think about Honduras, it is a mixture of not only missing them but the feeling I get that I need to be there.

I get the obvious question of "how long are you staying there?" every few hours from friends and family and my answer is always the same... I am going to take it year by year but I'll know when it is time for me to step away. That time could be next November or 20 years from now I just don't know. I love it that way though, I love working on His time and not my own. God has blessed me with not one but two jobs that I miss with all of my heart and two jobs that I can not wait to go back too. I find it tough to explain my current situation to everyone because these two worlds don't seem connected. It seems like a night and day difference. It is that reason that I am excited for one of my friends, Caity Davis, to come down and see what I do first hand. I sometimes get looks along the line of "you must be crazy" to work so much, so far away, to not even draw even every month. But, I respond the same way when I get those looks, I can't imagine being anyway else right now in my life, and until I can feel right about being somewhere else Honduras will be my home because it is certainly the current location of my heart.