I take a final look around my empty bedroom, making sure I didn’t forget anything. Then, we step outside and hop in the pick-up truck that has desks and bed posts precariously piled into it.

Just like that. How did I get to this stage?

We talked about it earlier that day as we ate her Colombian food in the kitchen, our boxes of belongings piled on the kitchen floor. We talked about entering unfamiliarity.

But also, how God is outside of time.

How He’s brought us to this day.

Because we now have everything He wants us to have before we move forward.

As I slide into the truck beside my parents, my heart is quiet.

I’m confident that I would not be in this moment if God had not already prepared me for the next one.

“Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will…” Hebrews 13:20-21