I write this blog from my friend’s kitchen in sunny, southern California with less than 12 hours between me and the hope of boarding a flight to Fiji. It has been over a year since I was first offered a position with the international school in Fiji as a Theatre and Language Arts teacher. It has been five months since I officially signed the contract and began the long and tedious process of checklists and paperwork. With the amount of hooping jumping we’ve done, we should be eligible to start a circus! If all goes to plan tonight, I will arrive ten weeks late into the school year (having missed the entire first quarter). I will spend fourteen days alone in a hotel quarantine with spotty WIFI (or so I’ve been told). Two to three more COVID tests and then it’s a few hours’ drive to my new home in the capital of Fiji. Nothing about my last year+ has gone the way “I” would have planned it. And yet the one thing I am most confident in is that the Lord has been steadfast through it all (even when I have been the furthest from faithful to His promises). It’s been extremely difficult. Amidst the heartbreak, hurt, and struggle, I remember that I have much to be grateful for over the past 378 days. Honestly, it still doesn’t seem real. I’m not allowing myself to get too excited because even though I have all the documentation I should need to board the plane, I am bracing myself for anything. If for whatever reason I am unable to travel to Fiji tonight, the next available flight will not be until June. We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. No setback is a surprise to Him. Thank you to all who prayed me home from Thailand over a year ago and who now are praying me through getting to Fiji. Life is wild. Whenever the Lord gets me there, I look forward to returning to blogging with much renewed passion and to joyfully share my introduction and transition to another beautiful and unique part of the world.
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Bonnie Vitosky
3/23/2021 01:14:21 pm
You are in our prayers! God’s got this, just sit back and enjoy the journey! Love you♥️
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Barbara Hays
3/23/2021 01:18:23 pm
Love and prayers, Sarah.
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Jose J Banales
3/23/2021 01:54:48 pm
Audrey and I have been praying for you since we met you last year. We love your story and your smile. God bless you as you proceed.
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Ron Vitosky
3/23/2021 02:02:49 pm
I have prayed you will be able to get on the plane and head to Fiji, if God wills it to be. If he doesn't it is because he has something better in mind-even if we cannot see what it is. Of course, you already know this. We love you and will miss you while you are away.
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Alice Kring
3/25/2021 02:42:36 pm
Thank you for the blogs/emails keeping me sorta up to date on your adventure. Each one seems to be filled the real world happenings that show how the Lord really is working in our world. Still praying for you,
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