God i thank you for this life you’ve let me live. i thank you for the peace you brought me during this season that seemed SO scary. thank you for showing me how beautiful and full of joy life on the other side is. thank you for showing me that obedience isn’t a burden but a gift. keep breaking my heart for what breaks yours Lord! this life i’m living hurts, but in the most beautiful way and i pray my heart will always feel like this. continue to put people in my life that need your love. continue to put people in my life that i never knew i needed. i pray over the sweet faces that bring me so much joy and hope. i pray for the eyes that look into mine. i pray that they don’t just see green gringa eyes but, they see love, your love, the way i see strength in theirs. every day you put me in situations i don’t understand, everyday i wonder why you picked me, and everyday i’m so thankful that you did. God i pray that this life will NEVER become normal to me in the sense of mediocre, i pray that it will always excite me and cause me to want more. i pray that it DOES stay normal in the sense of everyday, i pray everyday you help me die to myself and follow you because i see how much better life is when i’m following your plan. i want this to be forever and not just while i’m on this 9 month mission trip, Lord make this my normal extraordinary life. thank you for loving me so much that you put me through these hard goodbyes and new hellos that never fail to remind me why i follow you and how rewarding it always is. thank you for my normal, extraordinary life!

amen