I Live Here Now

Since graduating from high school, God has taken me on many adventures far from the place I considered home in Texas.

Seward, Nebraska to attend Concordia University

London, England for an amazing semester at Oak Hill University

New Haven, Connecticut (and Branford!) to the Physician Associate program at Yale University

Maseno, Kenya for 10 weeks (which amazingly I returned from a year ago on Friday)

And now, Honolulu, Hawaii

However, there has been a difference with this move.

In the previously mentioned moves, there has always been a transition time. Usually filled with tears. When I questioned the adventure versus what was known and safe.

As I sat and said,

"Why did I move to the middle of no where Nebraska? I could've gone to Texas A&M?"

"England? What was I thinking? I should've just stayed in Nebraska!"

"Yes it's Yale. But it's half way across the country. I could've gone to Baylor!"

"Taking time off to do research in Kenya! It's extra work, and extra time, and so far away! AND by the time I get back to Connecticut A will have moved to Hawaii!"

In the end, God's plan was far better than mine. But there was most certainly a period of questioning. With this move, I had a little panic when I moved from Connecticut to Texas... but two weeks before I moved here, the anxiety vanished and there was just peace. And that peace has been the over arching theme of my time here, from packing, to the moment I stepped on the plane, to the early morning when I dropped A off at the pier for this underway, to my first day of work.

This past Saturday I was driving towards Waikiki, the moisture in the air was low, so I could see all the way down the island to Diamond Head, and suddenly it hit me, "I live here now." Once again, peace. It's pretty amazing to know that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be.