ariannamcmonagle Jan 12, 2021 7:00 PM

What you missed in 2020 + what's going down in 2021

Well, last you knew, I was at Home and crying but also thriving in California!  Here's what you missed! I spent the majority of my LA quarantin...

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Well, last you knew, I was at Home and crying but also thriving in California! 

Here's what you missed!

I spent the majority of my LA quarantine with the one and only wonderful, precious Allison Vickers! I wouldn't trade that time for ANYTHING!!! NOT ONE SINGLE THING!!!!!! 

I felt a little whisper to my soul to scoot on over to Gainesville, GA like a bolt out of the blue. I had no money, no car, no plan, no job, no place to live, and approximately one known friend, but I went for it!! I laugh now everytime I think about it. I'm smiling right now. In typical God fashion, He showed up. He always does :)

I felt urged to leave on July 13th, so I did that! 

Stopped along the way and stayed with friends I hadn't seen in a long time and was overjoyed to be in their presence. What a precious summer!!

Lo and behold: A house and two absolutely wonderful roommates!!

Joined a local church! I've been witnessing signs, miracles, and wonders for a couple of years now, but it never gets old :) This boy had his eyes healed in the water and I had a front row seat!(I was interceding on the side of the pool) Watching his eyes light up gradually was one of the best moments of my year! 

 

Got a part time job at a corn maze (and took several online classes)!

 

!Did a training camp!

!Because I am heading to Guatemala very soon to do more missions work!

 

Life is wild and wonderful and bewildering. It's heart-wrenching, beautiful, and costly. It's painful and difficult and lovely and frustrating all at once. When I'm a grown up, I hope I'll be proud of how I spent this time. I hope I'll believe that I made the right choices and did the right things. I hope that I'll be confident that I followed where God was leading. I am right now, but sometimes it takes time to tell what was really really really right and what was really really really wrong. Perhaps because of doing character studies, I always think about how villains think they're in the right when they're totally off. This makes me smile too. God is the only one who gets to call those shots. He's the only one who sees the big picture and knows right from wrong. That's why I do my best to cling to Him and follow His voice above all others. Confess and repent y'all, Jesus loves you :)

"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to."

Luke 13:24

May I recommend peeking at Psalms 16 & 46 & 127 today? Good for the mind, body, soul, and spirit :)

 You are so loved. 

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