I have found that my life has always played itself out in exactly the right order with exactly the right timing. If I have learned one thing in my 24 years, it is to give up control and just let things happen as the Lord wills it. In going with that, it just so happened that the week it worked out for me to come down was also the exact week my best friend Sarah and her husband and daughter were traveling through Roatan on a 6 week trip through Central America.
We spent the week together basking in the sun on the beach and in each other’s company, and I wouldn’t have traded one single moment for anything in the world.
Sarah has been through so many stages with me, and seen the many different people that I have been and become. We both have watched and nurtured each other to the people that we are today. But for the most part our friendship has been one-sided. Sarah has always been a shoulder for me, a warm place for me to turn to, a home that has always been open for me at anytime. She has sacrificed and given more than any other friend I have and has asked for nothing in return. For me to finally be able to welcome her and her family in my new home was a highly anticipated and beautiful moment.
We talked about whether or not Paradise was a place, a moment, or an experience extensively; and I can say nothing more about that week except that it was true paradise. I would love to share every story, every memory, but it is impossible to describe the feeling of complete and total happiness.
Martin, Sarah, and Kiera: To say goodbye to you for a second time felt like more than saying goodbye to a family that has become like my own, it was like saying goodbye to a chapter of my life that for now has been closed. You have shown me what it is truly like to be vulnerable and be okay with it. I will never be able to show you in words or even actions how much love I possess for your family. You have truly become a part of me.
Thank you for showing me paradise…
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