Hi, it’s the end of December and I’m slightly baffled how it came so quick.

This month my team (and whole squad!!) has been ministering with a YWAM base in Mendoza, Argentina and loving it!! It’s been 2 week since arriving at our ministry where our days have been long and very hot.

But I’m not going to lie, it’s been a whole new challenge not being home for the holidays. It’s the first time in my life I haven’t been home for Christmas and it’s the strangest thing ever. But through the challenge and the trial and the sorrow of it, God has met me in a new way unlike ever before. I’ve never experienced this or felt this way before, which means The Lord gets to speak to me and comfort me in a way he’s never had to before. How beautiful and so sweet of him!

He’s bringing me deeper to the simplicity and beauty that he is my absolute everything like never before.

I wish with all my heart I could be home for Christmas but then the Lord speaks to me and shows me that in a way I am. When I’m sad that I can’t be home, he shows me that he is my home no matter where I am. When I wish I was with my family or friends back home, he shows me that he is my sweetest family and my closest friend.

I’ve never needed him in this specific way like I need him now. And he’s meeting me where I’m at everyday so beautifully and more perfectly than I could have ever imagined.

He’s showing me more than ever that he’s my familiarity when everything else in my life feels different and new and scary. I cannot help but be overwhelmed with gratitude at how he graces me so majestically for ever season, every day, and every moment.

So no matter where you are today (or where’re you’re not), lean in, God’s right there waiting to embrace you specifically how you didn’t even know possible.