I Am I Am I Am!

I'm having a blogging streak! Oh my goodness! 3 posts in one day? Who does that anymore?

Reading my old posts is doing something to me! I have a penchant to write my thoughts down all of a sudden! As a younger lady, I wrote about men, about my feelings, about my thoughts of God, about work, about life!, about friends and about other random things. The tone of my writing was so different before. So fresh, fun and exciting! Always with exclamation marks! 

Now it is the OLDER me. The mellow, reserved, more calculated Grace. Yes, I am mellower, and I have been mellowing since half a dozen years ago. People do grow up. But hey! It does not make me a less interesting person.

I have been to 12 nations now, all in the last 4 years: Singapore, Australia, Indonesia, Egypt, New Zealand, Cambodia, England, the Netherlands, France, Mexico, India and Mozambique! And I discovered that I am a risk taker, although I calculate the risks first! I am more measured, more assured, more focused, more mature and definitely closer to who and where I should be! 

I have tasted a little bit more of life, and I know better what I am looking for in life, love and faith. I have amazing friends, friends who are on a similar journey albeit with different goals in life! One thing draws us together - our love and desire for God's glory to be shown through our lives. I have a broader perspective of life, and I have my likes and dislikes too. I am more of the person that I am suppose to become, and I am glad I am not on this journey on my own. God is faithful, and He has answered many of my teenage prayers. 

I am less of a racist, and I believe I will come to a place where I am completely free from that because God created everyone in His own image. I know God way better now that I had before, and for that I am eternally grateful, for nothing can take that away for me. It is priceless. And I did make choices that many will not make, where some say are foolish while others exhort as brave. I say it takes courage to do what is against the tide, and it is worth it to put your faith at risk in order to gain what is more. I have gained more, and want my cup filled to the overflow. 

I speak often encrypted, but that is just the way I am made. 

I love you God. I do. And I know what it means now more than I did 10 years ago. It has been a great 4 years, and I want more. So much more than I have now. You are the author of life. As I reminisce the past, I see your handprint on every moment of my journey in understanding and living life. And I am so glad I took the jump to ask You for more. Because in every way you have made it so much more.