I’m looking at my hotel room’s wall.
When you get the kind of deal that I did, the walls are
usually devoid of art. These ones are. And an artless wall is just fine with me,
because I’m 2 kilometers from the airport, and in less than 12 hours I’ll be
flying out of Thailand – no time for hotel art.
When I bought these
tickets back in June of last year I added on 6 days at the end of my internship.
The thought was that maybe I would want to travel a bit before leaving the
country. Also, there was a chance I would be leaving Thailand and not planning
a return trip.
I was wrong on both accounts. Oh well, this is why my
fortune-telling gig right after college never took off. When last Friday came
around I was ready to be home –where I will have a hard time breathing with
Bernadette, Belle, and Phil’s fur clogging up my sinuses. And, I am planning on
returning to Thailand…
You know those people who always say, “It changed my life!”
in regards to everything (including my famous green beans (which are good, but
not that good))? I’m going to borrow a line from them.
This time changed my life.
Being in Thailand was so good. Being at Cornerstone, with some
of the best people ever, has been incredible. Counseling, nearly full-time, is
difficult - and I love it. Working with cross-cultural workers in a counseling
environment is emotionally draining – in the best way possible. But, most of
all, counseling children? I have come alive.
I don’t know, this might sound pompous, naïve, or misguided,
but I feel deep in my bones, that God wired me to be a counselor. And even
deeper, I believe life has happened how it’s happened to equip me to sit with
children. So, I can’t wait to get back to it.
If I had imagined my best life for myself, I couldn’t have
imagined as fulfilling of a life as the one I believe I am entering into. I had
dreams. Oh, I had dreams! But, they weren’t this good. And sometimes, I had no
dreams at all - other than to survive the workday, the workweek, and the
worklife. But in all of those, I couldn’t have imagined this.
So, thank you. Seriously. Thank you. If you’re reading this
that means that in some way you were a part of all of it. So, to nearly
everyone in my world: I’ll see you when I see you, and hopefully I see you
soon.
