Walking by Words

When I headed off to Kenya, I left you with this….

 And I walked into the unknown clinging to words…

"...And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story will be about changing, about getting something beautiful born inside of you, about learning to love a woman or a man, about learning to love a child, about moving yourself around water, around mountains, around friends, about learning to love others more than we love ourselves, about learning oneness as a way of understanding God. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?
It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.
I want to repeat one word for you:
Leave.
Roll the word around on your tongue for a bit. It is a beautiful word, isn't it? So strong and forceful, the way you have always wanted to be. And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed."



Talk about serving someone...

    I left you with a quote that comes back to my constantly, and one that explains my time spent on the field so very well.

Because I learned what it means to love…
Sickness struck my team time and time again, and I learned to love. I loved people at their lowest, loved through the night, through the vomit and hospital runs. Loved through being angered with me for making them eat cliff bars, or drink water, or stay upright.

God showed me how to love.

I wish I could tell you of one moment, one moment when God showed up and something crazy happened, or revealed something profound to me…

    But I can’t. This moment never passed…
Instead I had many moments,

 …moments when I was told why I was there…

“To serve people in a way the world doesn’t understand”

...moments when I learned that…
“You were created to live this life”

….moments when God showed me that…

“With Me, there is NOTHING you can’t handel.”

SO as I walked through what goes down as the  craziest month of my life, I walked by words…
Words from my Daddy guiding me through EVERY moment, telling me to keep going, keep loving, keep striving to be more like Him.

Words from loved ones, telling my they loved me, this was right for me, that they were praying.

Words rang in my head, telling me that I was doing the right thing, that I could take all that was being thrown at me, and reminding me that nothing Satan did could break me, because I am a WARRIOR for Christ. And above all I was on His side.

Kenya was wonderful, Kenya was hard, Kenya was beautiful, Kenya was exactly what I needed.

So as I continue to process the past month, I’ll leave you with this excerpt from my journal…

Inspired by Romans 8:15-17….

I have not been adopted into a spirit of slavery or sin! I have been adopted into glory!

Declare it! I will!

Emily is NOT a slave to….



Lie's, Expectations, Ect. were laid down, surrendured and burnt

Sin                                 Darkness

Expectations                  Flesh

Confusion                      Homesickness

Distractions                   The Past

Failure                           Fear

Hatred                           Flashbacks

Anxiety                         Her Desires

NO, EMILY HAS BEEN ADOPTED INTO GLORY!

EMILY WILL LIVE IN THE MOMENT

EMILY WILL WALK IN HER HEVANLY AUTHORITY

EMILY IS…

Forgiven          Enough            Royalty
A Daughter     Fearless           Beautiful
Joyful              Excited            FREE
Winner            Hopeful           Loved
Beloved           Chosen            Strong
Brave               Conqueror       Alive

Emily is world bound…

Emily is a royal heir to the Kingdom of Heaven!

 And theses words…I cling to, these words I walk by!
*Phot credit to Kenya Team