Wherever He Leads I'll Go

I spent seven weeks in Italy. Rome, Italy. I set up this blog again so that I could share of my adventures there as it happened, yet I never once felt the pull or need to write. I updated individuals with emails. I shared videos with family. I even thought about my blog from time to time and the fact that I hadn’t shared anything yet. There was much going on, much learning, and awesome moments of getting to plant seeds in the lives of others and share of my faith and relationship with Jesus. I learned so much from the believers there and their testimonies. 

Yet this blog saw none of it. 

Now I sit in the bedroom in the upstairs of my Nana and Papa’s house after leaving Rome with 48 hours of notice. It was quick and fast. It went against everything in my personality. No lists or organized packing. No systematic goodbyes or visits. Just get on a plane and get home. 

Yesterday was hard. Reality and grief hit. I lived in Rome. My daily life was there. I was just feeling settled and as if I was really catching my breath. I was planning on being there for nine more weeks. 

But now I sit in this room where I will spend the next week and a half settling in and processing, and it is the time I feel I have something to share. 

I have been processing. I have been crying. And yes, in the midst of that I know God has been whispering over my heart, “Come, daughter, tuck into Me. I know.”

But more and more (especially this morning as the sadness didn’t hit in the same way when I opened my eyes), my mind was drawn to another truth. 

God doesn’t change. He rules over all. He remains the same no matter where we wake up. 

We are called to live by faith and walk by the Spirit. 

These are the truths that have stuck out to me the most. The ones that are currently running through my mind and rolling around in my heart, making all the emotions break up and settle in the right places. 

What if all of this was just for that? Just for that image and the truth that God is working me through-  that He is Lord. He is steady enough to transcend any culture or country. Any culture shock. Any time zone. Any tiredness. He can move us in 48 hours. But He is Lord. And we can rest in that. 

We can walk by the Spirit whether our feet are in Arkansas in the backyard of our homes or if they are walking through the cobblestone streets of Rome.

And we are called to boast in Christ. Not in our circumstances. Not in our experiences. Not in our location. IN CHRIST. The One who steadies and directs and moves our feet in the direction of following Him. 

So there is a blog post. Sharing those truths that I am processing and that are covering over all the rough emotions in my heart today. 

May these principles and truths run ever deeper in my heart and spirit as I am planted in this room for the next week and half… and wherever I am after that. 

Jesus is Lord over Arkansas, Italy, Germany, Greenland, Canada, and all around and in between. We are steady. And we are followers of Jesus- the One who has complete authority to direct our steps. And I know He directs them to good places that have purpose- even in moments when it is hard to process and understand. He can be trusted. His ways are good and right. 

So with all of that, my heart is processing and working on voicing and truly meaning... Wherever He leads I'll go. 

But the substance belongs to Christ. Colossians 2:17

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. Galatians 5:16 

Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking, and envying each other.  Galatians 5:25-26 

May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Galatians 6:14