I was having a very bad attitude on the first night when I arrived at the retreat center. I complained to myself why I even came to the retreat. Later, I realized that God wanted me to be there to meet a special person. I cannot tell you about this person, but our meeting meant a lot to me. It reminded me a few years ago when I got accepted to a medical university. I wasn’t happy about the school and the program that I studied. After the first semester, I found that I really enjoyed learning English, and I felt like a duck in water. When we are doing something that we are really good at, we are like the duck in water. In my third year of study, I met the person who later introduced me to God. The medical university that I complained about turned out to be the place that changed my life. God has been teaching me that life is full of surprises! You never know who you are going to me and what is going to happen.
I have many people ask me about my feelings about returning home. Through all the trials and tests in my life, I am confident to tell people that God has something good for me. Instead of stressing out, I learned to embrace surprises that God intended for my life. I know that a lot of times things don’t work out according to my initial plan. I got frustrated when things didn’t work out the way that I thought. As I grow closer to God, I know that my plan is not that important compared to His. I am glad that God didn’t allow my plans to work out the way that I wanted even though it was not fun. I wanted to end my blog with scripture from Hebrews 12:11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.