such a time

How many of us know that feeling when you don't get the answer you were expecting? Or not the way you were necessarily expecting it? That is life a lot of times right. Probably most times. That is what makes it wonderful! The way situations in life come together to complete pictures we could only imagine in our hearts. The way God births realities in ways we could never orchestrate of our own power. Nor would the routes He chooses ever fall under our natural will.

I am more cognizant of this, after a few weeks in Vegas have led to the realization that I am staying longer than I intended and without a date to say when it will come to an end (that is not months away). I have to learn how to live life here again. I have to adjust. I have to trust that the change in me and all the differences supercede the 'normal' routine of an old life. I have to be confident that I am present here for this season, for multiple reasons and continue seeking God's heart starting with what is most tangible. Because sometimes it really is that simple. 

I was talking to my dear friend Mrs. Rivka Bundra who is moving to New York with her husband and 5 kids (including a baby girl who is partying it up in her womb*) in just a few short days. The time that I have been able to spend with this woman -who has basically become the big sister I never had- before her clan heads across country is proof enough of how gracious and intentional God really is. And how He is in the business of making all things beautiful, especially the way we spend our time. Last night she suggested, "Look at what is right in front of you." Meaning adjust your sights to praying into what it looks like to let Holy Spirit lead you in pursuing relationships here at home instead of wildly chasing them. Partner your presence with those that would have it and running with those who are hungry for more in this life. Be available to those who are also thirsting to abandon the snares of the world and take up the freedom that resides in this joy-filled calling of Kingdom family. We we made for such a time as this.

Some days, I miss Kona and the relationships that I built and lived in there. Some nights, I miss Cambodia and the priceless investments planted in the rich soil there. I remember those days and nights when I missed Vegas, though. Here I am. Now, what am I going to do? Ms. Kortney Krugar (one of those lovely homes I found in the form of my sweet Awaken friend) put it so well the other day in a quick text, "...pursuing it back home, it's so easy to do it when that's the culture we were a part of and we had much encouragement along the way but now it's like: Home is where it begins. It's a challenge but I think without going for it at home, it will never become part of us!"

Shaka.

*Turns out this wasn't as accurate as we thought. Because, True Justice Bundra is very much a boy, we came to find out . Haha!