You Deserve All The Good Things

….you know what I do! and I plan on enjoying all the good things in the hours, days, and weeks to come!

You deserve all the good things….

As my time was ending in Shanghai, I met a sweet lady from S. Africa who goes by KG. It was a lot for me to take in at first because I too go by KG – but, we both got use to seeing our initials in the same group chat and using context to know when someone was sending one of us a message. KG must be one of the sweetest people I have ever met & and I am really bummed that I met her in my last weeks of my time as an expat in China. On the bright side, through the vehicle of technology we can stay in touch with one another.

Recently the two of us KG’s were chatting online and I was catching her up on my life back in Texas and she was catching me up on her life in Shanghai and towards the end of the conversation she said “KG – You deserve all the good things” and when she told me that – I am happy it was through an audio note so I could hear it – I was so encouraged. She is right! I do deserve all the good things. I’m thankful for the reminder and the encouragement.

Soooooooooo there is so much to share with all of you and I will! I want to share about my experience during Shanghais ’22 Lockdown- But – –  I am home in the States. No longer is it K. Marie takes on Shanghai- She took it on (so I GUESS a new name for the blog coming soon) – and she did great and amazing thing while there.

I gave five years of my life to that city and there were so many great moments and there were some very low and tough moments. COVID has absolutely changed the world and everything that we do and how we operate. I don’t regret my time in Shanghai at all, it just came to an end. It felt a bit abrupt – but sometimes life can be hard and abrupt. I have been home for 48 days and I have been at peace. Shanghai took a serious toll on me in the last three months. As COVID numbers spiked the city went into a serious and intense lockdown. Shanghai/China’s lockdown is unlike that of any other country, and I have some thoughts I wrote in my journal that I want to share soon about that. I wanted to take some time to get settled at home and adjusted to life back with my friends and family. All is well with me, and I do pray that all is well with you! I look forward to sharing with you about my last weeks in China and about all that is to come for K. Marie!I’m so happy you’re following my blog. Who knows what I will take on next?

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Thank You KG for encouraging me. It makes me think of this verse- John 10:10 – …. I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly. I plan to live my life and live it abundantly!

Before the city closed I took some pictures at various sites around the city. I’m so glad I did this before the 2022 lockdown started. These will be great memories.

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“life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”  

– Hellen Keller