Stateside Update #3: Early Preparation

Friends and Family,
This post is to let you know that I received an e-mail from my cooperating teacher (who I will be observing and teaching under during student teaching) today. He and his wife have lived in Thailand for many years and they have four children. In his e-mail, he mentioned that I will love it in Thailand and at Grace International. What encouraging words! I am really looking forward to meeting him and his family and I am all too anxiously awaiting my twelve weeks in Southeast Asia.

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It is so exciting to know that plans for a year from now are already in motion and that God is patiently and precisely working everything out for our good and His glory. I am reminded again of a note my friend Joel wrote to me on the front of an envelope when I left for Hong Kong last year. One line stood out:

May your preparation be worship.

As I write this post tonight, thinking about God's work, I am reminded that even my preparation should be worship. I regularly attend my college's Student Missions Fellowship, a group dedicated to worship, prayer, and sharing about students' study abroad/internship programs across the world. Tonight, the worship leader mentioned in his prayer that God is a "busybody." We laughed, because we have often heard that term in reference to gossip, but I think it carries an interesting meaning in relation to God. He is consistently working and providing and moving, and yet, he is never tired of hearing our voices. He is busy, but he is available; he is patient, but is omnipotent.

What a mighty God we serve.
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"Seek Him. Be Here. Be His."
"‎It is the people who endear the city to our heart." - Chandler