overseas: together, only seperate.

its hard for me to write about these girls.

somethings in life are just better stored in the heart, you know?

its hard to explain the ebb and flow of a real genuine relationship.

multiple that by three solid relationships and you could understand how my words fail me.

at the same time, nothing is easier than describing how dear these girls are too me.

the way we've gone countless nights without sleep crying and holding each other.

numerous nights spent just praying and weeping over the world, over our relationships, over our hearts.

i'm really blessed to not only have amazing sisters and a mom i'm close to, but multiple "best friends."

i'm just a lover, and Jesus has best seen fit to love me well through other ladies.

He's given me some amazing best friends.

Ellen, Marcia, and Cheryl are my college cronies!

*smiles*

i can't even remember all the crazy things we did during those days.

but the tie that bound us all together was always our love for Jesus, our pain over injustice, our desire to go and serve so the lost may know, our creative spirits, our love for the arts, our love for coffee, our love to listen and bless other women...

i could go on and on, but basically it was the knowing in our hearts that we were meant to live out our days overseas and spend them on behalf of others.....

it was just a matter of "timing."

i always knew we'd end up overseas at the same time, in the places that have always been held so very dear to our hearts, i just can't believe that day is here.

it seems like just yesterday we were crying and having to encourage each other that someday we'd make it to where our hearts were created to be.

its weird seeing your dream, and your friends dreams come true.

weird, but

wonderful and lovely.

i can't even tell you where some of my girlfriends are because they are really living out Jesus in some crazy places.

and in reality, marcia and cheryl are still praying and believing their full funding will come in by December.

but, right now, for the first time EVER

all four of us are overseas, doing what we love.

and that knowledge and feeling inside my heart makes me burst with pride and joy.

please pray for my girlfriends (and Daniel and Jonathan as they married into this crazy group of girls).

pray for open doors and open hearts where they are working tirelessly to see Jesus be known.

pray for their funding to come through to 100%.

praise the Lord in His time He has seen fit to answer our prayers and dreams!

i'm just full of awe as this is literally what we've dreamed of for over 5 years together......

we're doing it girls.

marcia:

 

 

cheryl:

 

ellen:

ahhhhhhhhhh i love you three so much!