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Home. What defines this for me? Where the heart is? Where is my heart at home? I am learning more and more that my only hope is in Christ. He is the only one that can truly satisfy me and in him alone can I find my true self that God has made me to be.
The last few days have been full of hugs and long talks and picture viewing and being outside in the crisp chill. I do love Canada. It is where I was born, where I have lived my life, where I have learned so much.
How wonderful it is to be with people who know and love me for who I am, and have known me for my entire life. Again, the question is put to my mind: am I willing to run headlong into the life God has called me to, no matter where that takes me? Am I willing to forsake all for the cause of Christ? The answer has to be yes, because my heart is too restless when it's not in the centre of God's will for me. I am not satisfied living a life that is "ordinary" if I am not where God wants me to be in that moment in time. Again and again the cry of my heart is that I am the aroma of Christ to those around me wherever that is.
I find that I finally have time to process what has been happening in my heart and life.
I am still quite jet lagged. Every day I've been getting really tired around suppertime. I drove to Provost on Wednesday evening to spend a few days with Kristy (my amazing cousin who is getting married in a month and I'm making her wedding cake and am a bridesmaid). It was probably not the best idea to drive in the evening by myself. I was SO exhausted. I had to keep calling people on my cell phone to keep myself awake. Thank goodness my cell phone minutes didn't run out until I was 5 minutes from Kristy's place. I made it okay and thoroughly enjoyed the huge HUG from Kristy. Life is changing with Kristy getting married, but it's so comforting to know that since we are family and so indescribably close to one another, we will always have a special bond that cannot be broken.
Today I will journey to Saskatoon for a Roste family Christmas gathering, full of my wonderful relatives and new additions to the family, undoubtedly some wonderful food, great talks, laughter, fun, pictures, and all that defines our blessed family.
On Saturday and Sunday, Mike has some concerts at the ML Alliance Church. I saw his music video - WOW is all I can say! He's really getting good. I'm a little biased, I'll admit, but I'm proud of my brother!
I bought a French-English New Testament, and I'm so excited to start reading the Bible in both languages everyday. I really want to become fluent this next year. I have a lot of practicing to do, but I'm ready.
Okay, enough rambling, but I'm going to keep this updated over my time in Canada as well. God still does some pretty cool things in Canada, that's for sure.