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Summer Days / 06.11.08, 05:15 PM
It’s crazy how long it has been sense I’ve been on here to blog. Days are flying by and it’s hard to think that my mission year is coming to a close end. The summer has come so fast. It feels like yesterday when I first met my team and drove down to Atlanta Georgia to start our year off and now we are leaving again for Atlanta this Thursday for an urban festival. Unbelieveable.
It’s almost like I want to say, “hey! whoever created mission year – A year isn’t long enough. no fair! there is too much to be done…how can I possibly end this?” But the thing is, my mission year isn’t ending in August….there is no finish line that I am crossing – no trophy or pat on the back waiting for me. There isn’t this “secret to life” that I am supposed to understand now.
This year has been a journey. It’s been a beginning. It’s been a step. It’s been a process. It’s been life. You can’t neatly compartamentalize life- You can’t just finish mission year. It doesn’t make sense in my head that way. You change…God changes you. He’ll show up for you…He will make you like Jesus…weather you know it or not. It’s inevitable. And that’s what mission year is. It’s the step into seeing and experiencing that for real – for seeing and experiencing how good God really is and who He has carefully created you to be in His Kingdom here on earth.
There are lots of thoughts going through my head as to what to say about what I anticipate and hope to happen in these last couple of months. I guess I’m just more hopeful of a beginning then I am sad for an ending. And it’s a beautiful thing.
And that’s all I really have to say right now. Aftercare is about to start so I need to go. Peace.
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Wow, I loved your words… what an encouragement!!! What you said about MY not really ending-but it being a beginning, a step, a process, that it’s just been life…. that’s powerfully refreshing and encouraging. Thank you!
Be Blessed!!!
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