Skip to main content

Wanderlust

March 4, 2016

Good morning world! Snowy, frozen world... ugh.

Today is my last day of class before spring break and I think about how many people are going to Florida, South Carolina, or London and I feel all the jealously.

I will be going back home which is still in the Midwest. So I have snow. ewww. I love to look at snow but not the cold, wet and awful that comes with it. (nah) It's days like today that make me want to move somewhere like London where it's cold but not not 20.

I wish I could wake up, drink a cup of coffee while reading and walk outside and see Big Ben or Westminster Abbey in my backyard. Oh how I miss London. I can't believe it has been almost three months since I was there. I just want to go back. (maybe even permanently)

While I dream of London, I also think of all the other places in the world I want to travel to. Eight years from now my best friend and I are going to Italy to just see it. I'm so excited about it. We are going to see Sardinia, Rome and Tuscany. The food, shopping and culture, it all calls my name. While our galavanting around Italy is for our own benefit; I have places I want to go for my growth in God.

Ten years from now the short one and I, possibly others from our ministry team, are going to India to visit our sponsor child from Compassion International. His name is Subrat and he is four years old. He and I share the same birthday which is nine days from now. (what??) As a team we wanted to make a difference as a team and we were given the opportunity to change this child's life. I pray for him everyday and I cannot wait until I can see him, hug him and tell him how much of a blessing he has been in my life and the lives of my team.

While for now I am stuck in the Midwest; I dream of traveling around the world someday. I want to see the world that God has created and how incredible his creation is.

Wanderlust- a strong, innate desire to travel. To me: perfection!

Are you wanderlust too?

xoxo,
Em


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Rule Ten

Yesterday, my dad sent me the beginning of the rules he lives his life by or life lesson he has learned along the way. I appreciated all of them but the last one stuck out to me in particular. Rule Ten: Remember where you came from and who you are.  As I have really pondered this idea since I started school, I came back to it yesterday. Who am I? Where do I come from? What do I want to represent in life? These are questions that beg for answers far greater than I can suffice. I spent all of high school wondering who I was but found my stride in college. Quite frankly since coming to professional school, I have started to wonder the same thing. How do I live like Jesus and love the people around me when it is the exact opposite of the culture? Don't we ask ourselves this all the time. Or maybe, it's just me. As a Christian, I constantly ask myself how do I live as Christ in a world ran by the devil? I really don't have an answer. Shocker. I don't know everythin...

Lust and Loneliness

As I am sitting in Panera eating lunch, it dawns on me that I was having a whole conversation with myself this morning about a post I was going to write. Needless to say, I didn't actually remember until right now. Since I visited my alma mater (that's weird) this past week, I have had to do a lot of self-reflecting on where I am in this stage of my life. Most people, either friends from undergrad or pharmacy school are married, engaged or in committed relationships and I am sitting here single as a pringle. Let me tell ya it does not feel good. However, one of my friends, I'm not sure which told me that to find the relationship I desire that I need to have joy and contentment in this stage. That really got me thinking about where I am and who I perceive God to be in my life. So often, I find myself angry that I prayed for something and God didn't answer my prayer or do so in the timely fashion I had hoped. This causes me to put God in a genie bottle and say that I ...

Sophomore Sentiments

May 4, 2016 Today I finished my second year of college classes and I don't understand how time has flown so fast. Just yesterday it seemed like I was a doe-eyed freshman that didn't know anything about studying or college. Now, I realized that in August I will be a junior and heck if I know what I'm doing with my life. I also see how much is the past nine months I have become a completely different person. Everyone changes in college and I was always told that when I graduated college I would be a completely different person. Well low and behold, my mom was right. (once again!) My RA from last year asked me, "what have I learned this year?" Answer: a lot of things. About myself and the people around me. I've seen what it means to fall into a pit and not know how a way out and then what it means to find a way out. The people that are there through the pit and love you through it are the people who genuinely love you. While this year I don't have the b...