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Sunday, June 23, 2013
The Kaléo Program - A Look Back at 2012-2013
Check out this video which my friend Levi, a videographer, made about our year in the Kaleo Program. This brings me so much joy, but yet nostalgia at the same time. God is good!
Check out this video which my friend Levi, a videographer, made about our year in the Kaleo Program. This brings me so much joy, but yet nostalgia at the same time. God is good!
Final Thoughts
Being home from the Kaleo Program for two months has given me lots of time to think. There have been many conversations, experiences, stresses, nights of crying, days of endless joy, but especially God holding and guiding me all the while.
At first it seemed like the entire program was a dream, something that didn't even seem to apply to my present reality, but slowly and surely, God revealed the things stored away in my heart that he had been planting there all year long. His many truths, passions, passages in his word and friendships are golden treasures that I will never forget.
Something that has been vital and very powerful after coming home from the Program had been committing one of my friends each day by name to God in prayer. There are four summer months in which we as girls were challenged to pray for each other day by day. I have committed my brothers and sisters to God, committed their lives, their hopes, dreams, struggles and victories. Messaging them and telling them that I have been praying for them and asking for updates has been incredibly encouraging, a reminder from God that I am never without my community.
I got my yearbook from the year in the mail in which I had been involved in making as Photo Team Leader, reminding me of all the memories and experiences we had together! God is so good and he has been continually showing me his faithfulness in reminding me about the brothers and sisters he has given me.
I was also able to hang out with Levi and John who are mainlanders of BC like myself, and asking how they have been doing since returning home. I also got the amazing privilege to go back and visit Qwanoes during the Ethos Young Adults Retreat as well as the Open House where I saw Ashley, Lyann, Derek, Andrew, Evan, Jordan, Colin, Denver, Janelle and Lokadia! God has been encouraging me that these connections are not just for a year, but rather for a lifetime.
Obviously, just because I am able to connect with my Kaleo Program family does not mean that everything is amazing and I do am not struggling. I miss them all terribly, especially the ones whom I have not gotten a chance to see, but I know that this year was not meant for me to cling on to, but rather use as a type of spring-board to soar into the challenges and joys ahead in the next chapter of my life. He has been stressing to me over and over that it is not relationships, financial or emotional security or success which dictates satisfaction in life but rather, it is in CHRIST ALONE who I find my satisfaction.
A passage that Brent, our valedictorian read to us at graduation (which I had actually given him) was Philippians 1:3-11:
At first it seemed like the entire program was a dream, something that didn't even seem to apply to my present reality, but slowly and surely, God revealed the things stored away in my heart that he had been planting there all year long. His many truths, passions, passages in his word and friendships are golden treasures that I will never forget.
Something that has been vital and very powerful after coming home from the Program had been committing one of my friends each day by name to God in prayer. There are four summer months in which we as girls were challenged to pray for each other day by day. I have committed my brothers and sisters to God, committed their lives, their hopes, dreams, struggles and victories. Messaging them and telling them that I have been praying for them and asking for updates has been incredibly encouraging, a reminder from God that I am never without my community.
I got my yearbook from the year in the mail in which I had been involved in making as Photo Team Leader, reminding me of all the memories and experiences we had together! God is so good and he has been continually showing me his faithfulness in reminding me about the brothers and sisters he has given me.
I was also able to hang out with Levi and John who are mainlanders of BC like myself, and asking how they have been doing since returning home. I also got the amazing privilege to go back and visit Qwanoes during the Ethos Young Adults Retreat as well as the Open House where I saw Ashley, Lyann, Derek, Andrew, Evan, Jordan, Colin, Denver, Janelle and Lokadia! God has been encouraging me that these connections are not just for a year, but rather for a lifetime.
Obviously, just because I am able to connect with my Kaleo Program family does not mean that everything is amazing and I do am not struggling. I miss them all terribly, especially the ones whom I have not gotten a chance to see, but I know that this year was not meant for me to cling on to, but rather use as a type of spring-board to soar into the challenges and joys ahead in the next chapter of my life. He has been stressing to me over and over that it is not relationships, financial or emotional security or success which dictates satisfaction in life but rather, it is in CHRIST ALONE who I find my satisfaction.
A passage that Brent, our valedictorian read to us at graduation (which I had actually given him) was Philippians 1:3-11:
"Every time I think of you, I
give thanks to my God. Whenever
I pray, I make my requests for all of you with joy, for you have been my partners in
spreading the Good News about Christ from the time you first heard it until now. And I am certain that God, who
began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally
finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. So it is right that I
should feel as I do about all of you, for you have a special place in my heart.
You share with me the special favor of God, both in my imprisonment and in
defending and confirming the truth of the Good News. God knows how much I love you and long
for you with the tender compassion of Christ Jesus. I pray that your love will
overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and
understanding. For
I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and
blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return. May you always be filled with the
fruit of your salvation—the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus
Christ—for this will bring much glory and praise to God."
May God get all the glory and praise from our lives, and I pray every day that I would not lose faith or give up hope that HE who began a good work in me would carry it on to completion until the day that he returns.
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