When your around the same place, same people, same settings that your whole life you get comfortable. Comfortable in a way that you can be yourself and you can call all these things home. These last couple of weeks I’ve been trying to walk around this place that surrounds me in which I call home.I drive around and see everywhere that I am comfortable. Each time I drive, I walk and see different places I see that I have become a stranger, that things are different.All in which that these places I call home are unfamiliar. Africa changed my view set, my eyes, my motivation. I have a new outlook.
Yesterday as I walked through my work I had to keep reminding myself that I do have a new outlook. A new outlook in the which I have to keep telling myself that was born with a purpose and born to do great things.. Each and everyday as I am here, living my life I have to keep reminding myself that.It’s like a song that never leaves my head, it’s just on replay. I live in a world where people believe that they literally were born to do nothing and to achieve nothing, why would people think this way?
When I look at people that surround me daily I see potential, I see the good, I see the great and I see the reflection.
At times I have to dig, I have to poke and be slapped around little pieces at a time.As I dig, get slapped and keep finding the pieces I see hope again.On every road you walk in there’s always going to be cracks, bumps, potholes.I just know that I have to get through all the cracks and bumps to get to the other side.
Pushing, faith-walking, boldness
I gotta keep walking…
love you, jacelyn
It’s hard to keep that new outlook in the middle of your old life. God had a purpose for you in South Africa, and I believe everything we go through builds us up for what God has next. He instilled so much in you during your time in South Africa and he can (and will) use that where you’re at now to affect the people around you now. But that doesn’t make it any easier. I’ll be praying for you, Jace.