I will enter neither in mend nor meet, but in love.

   How do I know God is with me?  Because I am strong.  I am strengthened with love, not might.  In every new home my family has moved into, I have felt Him personally set me down and plant my feet on the new ground telling and reassuring me that here is where He wants me; where's He's sent me.  He is with me because He is jealous for my heart; my love; my token.  I know I am with Him because I am impowered and do not feel unloved; for He is my Beloved. I miss my small number of friends who live as close as a three-hour trip to as far as 3,000 miles away.  But somehow it is easy and so exciting for me to move and travel and not look back. How is this possible?
   Because He is so present. 
   Matthew 13:20 Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them
   My father is in the military, therefore we are obligated to move and travel very often, or however often as we are ordered. In nutshell, it's just change after change. Our motto is "Home is where the Army sends us" and that fits well. ;-)
   I feel like I have been prepared by God to fulfill His instruction: to help the needy.  All my childhood, I dreamed of being a cop or some kind of paleontologist. But last month, all of a sudden, I was so overwhelmed and unsure of what I wanted. 
   But wait. That's it isn't it? Do I know what I want?  Sorry Babe, but no. I think God was trying to tell me that I couldn't handle having things put into my own hands. He wanted me to have faith in Him and "lean not on my own understanding."
   Ephesians 2:13 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before hand, that we should walk in them.
   I was "prepared" by God, in His image, to walk in His good works and ways. 
   
  After feeling a bit confused, I could feel God nudging me to be a missionary.  Once I prayed about it a couple of nights, it felt right.  I felt immediate enthusiasm and assurance from Him that this is what He wants of me.  
   Matthew 28:19-20 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.