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Just a few days ago, right after she wasn't able to fly to Uruguay as initially planned,
she wrote the following in her weekly email. And I can't quit thinking about it.
"As for a spiritual thought, I've had a ton of people ask me if I'm okay, which has made me think.
Because of course I'm okay! Some people never get to their original assignments, some people have
to wait more than a year. Some people have like, I dunno, actual hard things in life. And if the Lord
needed me to be spending this week in Uruguay, I'd be there. Of course I'm a little sad, mostly because
I was literally traveling to summer and I had to come back and put a coat on, BUT the song "I'll go
where you want me to go" has never hit so hard as this week. That song is a banger. Because if I'm still
here, there has got to be a reason for it, someone's life I need to touch. So I might as well reach out to
every single person I can this week. I guess in short, my spiritual thought is that everything happens for
a reason. God is in control. And not the whip snapping drill sargeant kind of control, the fatherly parent
kind of control. The one where He gives you everything He possibly can in order for you to succeed.
The kind of control where sometimes you don't learn everything, because that thing could be too hard
or too heavy or you just don't need to know it right now. The kind of control where you are given gifts
because you worked for them, and gifts just because He loves you. The kind of control that you can
lean on and put your trust in, siempre siempre siempre. Because no matter how faithful you are to Him,
He always is faithful to you. He's always been pretty dang faithful to me, so why would I doubt Him now?"
Her goodness and light and testimony just overwhelm me.
How I love our missionary girl. Siempre, siempre, siempre.