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I write this as I’m on my way back to California. I’m not really sure if I can express in words how I feel. To be honest… I feel as if I just found out a friend died. I know that’s a bit extreme but for some reason that’s how I feel. When you live with 10 other people for 4 weeks and do EVERYTHING together I guess you don’t really know how to live without them. I also feel as if I left behind those friendships that we made in such a short amount of time. It amazes me how powerful God is in answering prayer and in allowing us to shower people with the love he gives us. In 3 weeks I made a new best guy friend who I would consider my brother, Vito. I adopted an uncle, Davide. I gained new best friends in Elisa, Salla, Benny, and Chiara. It’s hard to wrap my head around how these relationships grew so deeply in such a short amount of time. I’m going to miss Giuseppe’s broken English. Vito’s expression “fail”. Benny and her British accent. Davide being our tour guide everywhere we went. I guess God just really broke my heart for all of these people that we met. I know that He not only broke my heart but also everyone else on project. Saying goodbye to our friends was even harder than saying goodbye to each other. However, I know that this isn’t goodbye forever. God is pursuing these friends whether they would like to realize it or not. Yes that may be bold to say but I truly believe it. I love each of them so much that I’m just waiting for the day where they realize how much God loves each and every one of them deeply and personally. Yes, I wish that we could have seen this on project ourselves but everything is in God’s timing. Not ours. His timing is perfect and I know that if I don’t see our friends here on this Earth again… I WILL see them when we all come face to face with our heavenly loving Father.
As for the other people on project. I am so blessed to have meet each and every one of them. They have each affected my life in such a positive way. I will miss the community we had. The fellowship, tears, late night conversations, prayers. They helped me realize the power of prayer and how important it is to realize this power. I know I said I don’t know how to live without them. However, I am going to take this challenge and turn it into something amazing. Living in community with these people has shown me how wonderfully beautiful it is to live in community with other people that are walking with the Lord. It is necessary to each person’s Christian life to surround themselves with the type of people I was surrounded by this summer. They challenged and encouraged me. I would prefer not to write anymore because my eyes already burn from tears. However, I would like to end this blog with this. I deeply love each person that was on project with me this summer. I will NEVER forget our experiences together. I will do everything in my power to keep these relationships alive because that is how important each and every one of you is to me.
2 Corinthians 1.
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