I think I've told some of you this, but I often fear coming home. Not because I don't love my family and I really miss them a great deal of the time I'm away. But rather it is because my parents moved right after my senior year and I know absolutely no one in Connecticut. Why is this a problem? 1) home doesn't feel fully like home because I dont know where i'm going or have anyone to talk to or hang out or even blow off steam with here 2) My parents church...difficult to deal with. The college ministry is kind of, to put it frankly, dying if not dead. The few people that there are have known each other for quite some time and when they come home well they just want to catch up with their friends whom they havent seen for the year. Which is difficult for me because well...refer to #1.
And so...here I was about to leave school for the summer...knowing that I would be in Connecticut all summer. I was dreading it. As if my spiritual life hadn't had it hard enough the past year, here I was putting it to the challenge. It was all a catch 22, I wanted to be home but I knew home was going to be difficult.
In my parents attempt, bless them, to get me integrated within this community, I get dragged to these get together of 50 sum year olds who my parents are in bible study with or serve on committees with at the church, all whos kids are my age or older. Which I understand they're trying to get me to know people, but really, I just drag my feet go and am polite. This is where my introverted side, which people don't often believe exists, comes out. I just wish I could curl up in the corner and read a book.
Well here I found myself yesterday at one of these get togethers yesterday. They were celebrating the arrival of one of the ladies' son to Connecticut. It wasn't until later in the evening where they had the lady, Jasmine, share her story and why her son was now here.
To cut her basic story short, her and her son had come to the US in 2003, but her son had to return to India because of a family emergency. When he tried to come back his visa was rejected because of technicalities. Jasmine had gotten both her daughters where and they're both in school, one in pharmacy school and another in undergrad. All this while her youngest, the son, had stayed in India with his dad trying to get a visa to come to the US. She tried everything with many lawyers and nothing seemed to work and they were rejected time and time again. A year ago, on May 25th, during a time of prayer God told her that by that same day in 2009 her son would be with her. She was very skeptical, but she wrote this date in her bible. They tried many things, but basically, her son's visa went through and on May 23, 2009, 2 days before God told her, her son was in the US with her. Wow.
God is so faithful and overpowers our lowest expectations. And what a faithful woman of God Jasmine is. I was reminded that God works through all, even through my stubborness and He will continue to show himself even here in Connecticut.
If anything, please pray for me as I continue on this journey here and I just ask for your prayers to remain faithful.
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