I was so blessed to have such great friends, leaders, and mentors during this season who really helped me process my calling and helped me to find lies I was believing and replace them with truth. There were three things that I learned this past few months in Denver that really have impacted my life.
- The importance of knowing and dialing being in the Word. If I don’t know the Word how can I really know why I believe what I believe? How can I know the Fathers standpoint and strategy on how to effectively Love others?
- If my first answer isn’t J3sus, why am I doing what I am doing? When asked the question, “Why are you going back to Asia?” If my first answer isn’t the Father, then why am I going? I have lived a life with the Father and I have lived a life away from the Father. I know that I want to always choose one that is pleasing and honoring to Him because it is more important that people come to know their Father than for me to be married, rich, a mom, a teacher, etc.
- My Identity is from Dad. “Who told you?” In the Garden G0d asks Adam and Eve, “Who told you that you were naked?” When I think about who I am, I want my identity to be found first and foremost in what the Father says that I am. I want to always and continually put him first because he is the one that shows me who I was created to be.
There is still so much more that Dad was teaching me this past season, but if I didn’t pick just a few this would go from a blog post to a novel. So please, if you have more questions feel free to email me back or to set up a time to chat! I would love to share more about what Pops has been doing and will be doing in my life!
What’s coming next?
On Monday, I begin the school year at XiNing International Academy, XIA, and will be in a 3rd and 4th grade combined classroom! I am beyond excited to be called Miss Faber again and have a classroom of my very own. We start teacher training on Monday and have time in the afternoons to begin setting up our classrooms.
In January I am hoping to go to the all Y conference in Thailand! This will be a time to hear more about what is going on for the Y bases on this side of the world and encourage one another in our m!n!st!es. (If you would like to give financially toward this trip please let me know and I can give you details of how you can do that.)
Beyond this, things are all maybes. The Father has not yet confirmed anything to me, nor does anything need to be confirmed beyond this next year of teaching. So I know that I will be teaching at XIA for this next season (1-2 years), and when the time is right, He will let me know. If he doesn’t I will make the next best choice and do it with all my heart. I have spent so much of my life trying to plan the next ten years, but Dad has really been teaching me that I need to begin to take it one step at a time. I tend to get so caught up in the future that I forget what is happening right now and the amazing opportunities and relationships I have to build right now. So while I would love to tell you the next ten years of my life, that is not what Pops is asking me to do. I’m learning to be present right here, right now.
How can you be lifting me up?
- Ask for a smooth transition back home and also as I transition in to a new job!
- Ask for grace as I process this past season. We were made for relationships and not goodbyes, so my heart is heavy coming back after this past summer with such amazing relationships. This morning I was reading my journal from this summer and I was crying for joy and thankfulness that Dad allowed me to have such a sweet season growing with him and a little because I was sad to leave it and the people I got to grow with. So while you can be asking for grace and peace, you can also be thanking him for answering our pr@yers of meeting me there!
- Finances for the Y conference in Thailand this winter, and that all the details fall into place (sub for teaching, travel plans, place to stay, etc.)
- The flights will be around $400-500USD. If you would like to help with this you can email me back and I can give you the details you need. :)
- That the things I learned and grew in this past season would continue to come to mind that I would be continually applying them to my life.
I want to thank you so much for all of your pr@yers and support for the past (almost) two years! You guys are amazing and your support has blown me away. I know that I would not be able to be here without the support of my family and friends back home.
J