"You Are For Me"

Remember the purpose of this blog is not to just represent my thoughts but I want to showcase our missionary kids around the world.  Who could understand more or touch more lives than MKs helping other MKs? 

Hannah Bethany Benson

With that in mind, I just had to share the writing of Hannah Bethany Benson, MK to Togo/Benin.  She has a great attitude and concept to share about "Transitions"!  Transitions are something that every MK goes through, either when leaving their home country to go overseas for the first time, or leaving the country of their calling to return home for college.  MKs deal with culture shock on every side and transition can be a time of growth or a time of destruction.  Hannah has just gone through a great transition by leaving her family in their country of their calling and coming home to attend college.  Listen to the fantastic way that she has dealt with this in her own words:

“You Are For Me”

by

Hannah Bethany Benson

Bio – Moving to IBC this fall. 

Transition. It's a scary place. You aren't where you are going, but neither are you where you were.

These words sum up my life for the next few months. Transition. Change. Becoming. Growing. Learning. Trusting. Stretching.

This isn't the first transition I've lived through, but this seems like the scariest transition I will ever live through (at this point)! Some mornings I wake up wanting to cry, laugh, sing, and scream all at the same moment. If I look into the future too far, I start getting very overwhelmed. When I start feel like the world is going to crash on top of me, this is the song that I sing:

 "So faithful, so constant,
So loving and so true,
So powerful in all you do,
You fill me, you see me,
You know my every move.
You love for me to sing to you,

I know that you are for me,
I know that you are for me,
I know that you will never forsake me in my weaknesses,
I know that you have come now even if to write upon my heart,
To remind me of who you are

So patient, so gracious,
So merciful and true,
So wonderful in all you do,
You fill me, you see me,
You know my every move.
You love for me to sing to you" ~Kari Jobe

You see, it doesn’t matter where I am. It doesn't matter how much my life is changing. It doesn't matter how scared I might be, how worried, or how much the stretching hurts. HE never changes. HE is always constant. HE holds my world in HIS hands. AND…He is for ME. HE loves me. HE's not going to leave me alone in this time. HE's going to be with me every step of the way!

So yes, the fact that I am getting ready to move out of my parents’ house, halfway across the world, unnerves me a little bit. (They live in Togo, West Africa; I will be living in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.) No, not every detail is perfectly outlined for me. (This is hard because I like plans, and perfectly outlined details.) But, it's okay. I trust. I hold onto the Master's hand. I bring each day to HIM. When I start to feel like I am going to go insane, I cry out to HIM. HE leads, guides, and directs my path. That gives me peace!

Whoever you are, wherever you are reading this, trust that HE also holds YOUR world in His hands! He knows just where you are at, and He knows where you are going. He more than likely won't tell you every detail of the way, but He'll guide you. Let peace soak into your heart. Trust. Lean. Learn. "HE is for YOU!"

"I know that you are for me,
I know that you are for me,
I know that you will never forsake me in my weaknesses,
I know that you have come now even if to write upon my heart,
To remind me of who you are." 

Hannah with Hannah Grace, her namesake from Togo!