five loaves and two weeks

I woke up this morning a bit sore. Why? BECAUSE I CLIMBED A VOLCANO YESTERDAY!!!!!!!! I CAN'T GET OVER THAT!!!!! SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!! I also slept like a ROCK last night. It was great. And after class today, I went to Totus (it's like a grocery store) and bought a bag of chocolate milk and it tasted delicious.

I also realized today that I only have two weeks left in Arequipa and three weeks left in Peru. It's going to be hard to leave this place that has begun to feel so much like home. But God is so faithful! Minutes after making this painful realization, I read this passage (Matthew 14:53-21):

And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.

But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.

And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.

He said, Bring them hither to me.

And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.

Immediately after reading this passage, God whispered parts of the passage back to me, but He changed some of the words...

Hannah said to Him, "I have only two weeks here in Arequipa."

"Bring them here to me," Jesus replied... Taking the two weeks and looking up to heaven, He blessed them. And He did great things with them.

God, I thank You so much for the time that I have had in Arequipa and in Peru. I give You the time that I have left. It isn't a lot. But I give it to You to do with as You want. I know that You don't need a lot to work with. You can do very big things with very little. To me, two weeks seems... way too short. If it were up to me, I would spend these weeks dreading the goodbyes to come and rushing to do all of the things that I want to do before leaving. But, God, I give You these weeks. They are Yours, not mine. They never were mine to begin with, Jesus. Take these weeks, God, and do what You want with them. I trust You and I love You, Father. And thanks for helping us climb a volcano!!!