So, to answer your unspoken question of what is the purpose of the title of the email I will tell you. That is the hashtag of our new companionship. It's only been a week and I'm pretty sure we've laughed EVER SINGLE day together for most of the day.
The #us is a new subject under our "wonders and grapjes" that we do at the end of each day. Our companionship unity is a little bit too ridiculous, we say the most random-est of things at the exact time and in the exact same way. It's funny because as we both start to say the same thing, our faces changes and we say, "So help me!" and then just laugh about it.
It's been so much fun, we also have gotten into some pretty interesting adventures. Last week the Burgermeester, Hilda (yes, we're on a first name basis), of De Pinte gave a ride in her car to one of our appointments because we got lost. Then on Friday we stumbled upon a youth group of a church that gets together every now and then and sing Christian rock songs and pray together. We kind of got stuck there for about an hour but it was really fun to sing and dance with everyone.
Gent is just so much fun! We're just always getting into something.
But on a more personal note, the theme of this week for me has been, "Ponder the path of thy feet." I've been doing just that lately. I've been thinking a lot about how easy it is to compare oneself to another. Our brain just naturally does it and it only ever really is destructive.
There are moments when sometimes I just think, "Ugh, they're so much better than me, smarter, funnier, of wat dan ook.." And then you go into "why did this have to be that way" etc. It's easy to want to say, "why couldn't I have just been better?"
A few days I ago, I was reading in the New Testament, in John and I came across this verse (John 10:10) which said, "I (Christ) am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly." And in teaching our investigators, I always tell them that each person has his/her one specific path back to God and we have to do the work to figure it out.
Advice much needed for myself. It's all to easy to compare your life or path to another. But a quote that I like to keep in mind is - The grass is never greener on the other side. It's green where you water it. - My own personal progression is mine and I have to own it. And it's not there to measure against another's. Comparisons and jealousies are simply just small and effective distractions.
I know personally that I fall into that distraction all too often and all too easily. Yet another thing to work on. Sometimes this refining process gets a bit tiring or annoying but I am grateful for. I do want to go through and eventually end my mission being something/ someone so much better than I was. I guess that's why I'm also grateful for our lifetimes - for it is a lifetime pursuit of changing and becoming better.
I love you all! Laugh till you fall on the ground this week :)
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