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What is the point of all of this if you aren't going to let it change you?  Francis Chan

Today's quote and commentary is dedicated to one of my besties.  Sara "Sunshine" Pfaff-Ochieng. If you are my FB friend then perhaps you've seen her and I together on FB.  Here we are a little over a month ago. 

We are at the airport and I'm hugging her off to go marry her beloved, Paul.  He's a Kenyan and they married in Kenya since the U.S. was being stinky about letting him come for a visit here so they could marry in the States.  What's CRAZY about my Sara's story is this:  a short year ago, on this date, she had no plans to marry anyone and move her whole life.  Amazing what can happen in a few short months.  
Sara went to Kenya last summer (2011) for a 7 week missions trip.  She met Paul in about the last hour she was in Nairobi and now they are married.  Paul, who is AMAZING, currently teaches and lives in Oman.  So Sara tried to get a job in Oman.  No takers.  But she did get a job in Abu Dhabi (UAE) teaching so today she leaves for Abu Dhabi and Paul is working on getting his Visa for UAE so he can join her there.  Sounds nuts right?  It would be IF she hadn't let her experiences over the past 5 years change her.  It would be IF she chose to ignore what her eyes and heart have seen and heard.  It would be IF she didn't believe that there is One who holds her life in his hands and he has been molding her and transforming her and prepping her for such a time as this.  Sara made a choice to let herself be changed by the One who created her.  Beautiful things have already come from it and there's more to come.  

What's the point of what you...believe, do, live...if you don't let it change you?  


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