Tonight we sent off another longtime Kairos attender and volunteer. He was one that I looked forward to seeing every week for our friendly sports debates. God has called him to a new season in a new place, but he’s another in a long line of people God put in my life preparing me for a future that I’ve only been able to glimpse but only God can see.

It’s amazing how creative God is in the way He weaves people in and out of your story. Sometimes, it’s for five minutes. Sometimes, it’s five years. You never know the lessons you will learn from the most unlikely places if you keep your eyes on Jesus and not on other people. When you stop chasing after people, you allow the right people to catch you.

It’s funny how the people you start off not liking become the ones God uses the most to change your attitude and your heart. You start off praying for God to change them or to change your circumstances but God is more interested in changing you. In time, you might see these people through a new set of eyes and realize that they’re angels in disguise and some of the best people you’ll ever know.

Hopefully, this will be the last farewell for a while, but I’m blessed and thankful to have known these people and to see them following God’s call for His glory and their more complete fulfillment in a new way. I have memories and footprints in my heart that I keep always.