traveling

This has been my second time traveling this year. I know many people have been to many places and there are some who have never flown to another country or let alone flown at all. But traveling to places where affection is built due to memories of friends, missions, and just a community of wonderful people like in Ghana I feel many pieces of me long for those places. (Visiting for merely sight-seeing is a little different.) The world seems smaller and at the same time bigger. Going to New York probably for the fourth time in my life, I feel NY less distant now that I have friends there. It is less foreign. Yet the world is bigger because I learn that there are so so many different kinds of people.
And what I hope it causes me to think is that whether I have control over my situation or not, God is bigger. He is sovereign over all.

Thankful for my time with three of my closest friends and my brother and his girlfriend. What a trip.