If you're going to San Francisco. . .

It is official - I am headed back to San Francisco on December 21st - my year of living abroad is complete and so many of my dreams have come true! Thank you all for joining me on these adventures - you have been my constant companions over the 12 months and 3 continents! I am forever changed and will never forget all that has happened! Please continue to pray with me as I head out into the wild blue yonder of what comes next!

I leave you with the verse that I have learned and lived so well this year:

Philippians 4:10-14 (The Message)

Content Whatever the Circumstances

^10-14I'm glad in God, far happier than you would ever guess—happy that you're again showing such strong concern for me. Not that you ever quit praying and thinking about me. You just had no chance to show it. Actually, I don't have a sense of needing anything personally. I've learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I'm just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I've found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. I don't mean that your help didn't mean a lot to me—it did. It was a beautiful thing that you came alongside me in my troubles.