In December 2018, I resigned from seven years of employment in Cambodia as a project director of girls and women’s shelter. Yes, I experienced God’s peace, many challenges, stresses, temptations, and obstacles. For the last ten months, I went through transitional life back to the USA. I decided to take time to rest, restore, reflect, and rejuvenate. Taking this course was perfect timing.
When I started the course in Feb 2019, I used this study as my devotion to God. With my counselor there to walk with me, it was a divine appointment. Some lessons spoke to my feelings, challenges, and negative thoughts through my transitional life back to America. Some lessons gave me a new insight and knowledge regarding how to go more in-depth with Jesus in his word by spending quality time with a genuine desire to know Him and to learn. For example, the lesson on forgiveness helped me identify false statements and I asked God to remove those and replace them with God’s promises and remind me of my identity in Him.
Surely, I know that I am healed and I am focused on God’s perspectives and his Kingdom on earth. I have a strong desire to help other women to know and grow in Jesus, too. I desire to live like an oak tree by intentionally and purposefully spending time to read, to pray, to examine my life, and to share God’s blessings to others. I desire to live a life with Jesus so that I can be strong like an oak tree. I am blessed by God’s word and his faithful counselor, Sharon, sticking with me to the end of my course.
