How do you like the Forge?

People have been asking me in recent weeks what I think of the Forge. They want to know what it's like and how I feel about my decision to come. As to the first question, I can't really give an answer. It's a situation I've never really been in before, something I can't fully describe to someone who hasn't done something like it. It's difficult, fun, stretching, encouraging, heavy, and uplifting all at the same time. There are difficulties, but they are ones that serve to empower and discipline me in my walk with the Lord, who has graciously given me the ability to see these difficulties in light of how He can use them.

And as for the second question, there has never been a time when I have regretted my decision to come. I have never wished I was anywhere else, except I could stand a few days to go visit some of the folks back home who I miss. The time seems like it is flying by, and I never think I've been here as long as I have. I can't believe I've only got 6 more months to be here, 6 more months until the Forge is done and I have to go back into the "real" world and be a light there. But I'm confident that when that time comes, the Lord will have shown me where I am to be next, and He will have prepared my heart and body to be a light right where I am.