Tomorrow at 6am my precious little sister Meredith will be taking flight on an amazing journey. She is off to a YWAM (Youth with a Mission) DTS (Discipleship Training School) in Lakeside, Montana where she will be for 3 months and then she will be heading overseas to Thailand for a few months.
I am so proud of her for taking a step of faith, finishing high school a semester early, and totally yielding herself to what the Lord has for her. I know He is going to teach her amazing things and she is going to come back a different person.
99.9% of me is ecstatic for her but that .1% of me is so wanting to hop on that plane myself and seek out an awesome adventure totally for the Glory of God.
I think the hard thing for me lately is that my current job is obviously where God wants me t display His Glory. I will be the first to admit that I have not been doing the best at this.
There will be a slight void in my life over the next five months as I am lacking my Sense and Sensibility, You've Got Mail, and Sleepless in Seattle buddy.... who will I quote movie lines with? Who will laugh when I remark such things as, "all I have is a dollar," "fight, fight, fight to the death," "EDWARD!" and on and on.
Meredith is truly a gift from God and it has taken me years to come to say this. I know that the Lord has a high calling on her life and He has an amazing plan for her. I know this because of the fact that the Lord spared her life back when she was a wee babe and her body was plagued with Meningitis. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
She is the first of us 9 to go so far away for so long and I do not think my Mom knows what to do with only 4 children left at home.
The bittersweet fact of growing up *sigh* (that is another entirely different post)
Godspeed Meredith! I love you and will be on my knees daily for you as the Lord is molding you and continually shaping you into the beautiful woman He created you to be.
Godspeed!
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