Digging to the Core

Being immersed in a culture which you don´t know the language give a lot a time for time for thinking. After a full day of thoughts, I go to my journal to release some of my questions. On November 1st, my day led to this entry...

Last night when I plopped onto my bed, I found myself questioning... who am I?

What kind of person am I becoming after just two months in Paraguay? For most of

my life I have been able to identify myself by what I did

or maybe by certian personality traits. But I don´t have those discriptions to hide

behind anymore. While all those charcteristics are great assets, they are not the core

who I am. The very center of me is that I am a child of God. I am his daughter. But

what does that really mean? How can I continue to dig deeper to discover who God

wants me to become? The only way I know how is to become hungry once

again for Christ. Over and over I must continue to fall to my knees and offer all of myself

to Christ. Because it is through him that I am made whole.

I have found that after journaling I am left with an eager heart. A new found excitment is developing in my faith. Who knows where God may lead...