True joy and freedom comes in relinquishing our definition of comfort. To take risks and give up fear…to look outside of ourselves toward God so we can love others. To allow God to be big and Jesus to be sufficient.

**Thanks to Christina for sharing her thoughts and experiences from Peru.

I feel like I grow the most, in a spiritual sense, when I go through difficult times. Right now I’m being challenged by sermons, passages of scripture (Hebrews 11), things friends and mentors are saying, and words full of meaning on blogs. The challenge is to find joy and peace in the midst of unfulfilled desire, to trust that God will keep his promises to me even when I can’t actually see what he’s doing. I can’t stand it when people are vague on their blogs about struggles (though sometimes I’ll admit it’s a necessary precaution), so I’ll just throw this out there… I really want to have more children and so far the Lord hasn’t given us another bitty Tredway. I want to not despair about this, but to trust God in his infinite wisdom to provide us with a baby, adopted or bio, it doesn’t matter.

To use the wise words of a friend, what I really want is “to allow God to be big and Jesus to be sufficient.” Amen, sister.