Being a northern girl, growing up the city was always "bad", full of smog, scary unfriendly people, and materialism.
I never wanted to live here.
It wasn't until I decided to make the campus a mission field after University that I saw the benefits of going to a multi-cultural place. If I wanted to share Jesus with the nations, what a better place than Toronto?
It was here that I learned to embrace others, enjoyed random moments on the subway cars, walked with large buildings engulfing me while getting lost, found friends at Grace Toronto and on my staff team, and lived beside a McDonald's.
God taught me to depend on him through rough times like when my car got towed (twice) and I dealt with parking tickets. But even still, Toronto has charm. I enjoyed bike rides on Toronto Island, a Raptors game, concerts, an abundance of coffee shops and independent shops to explore and enjoy.
The best part however, were the people, the students I got to interact with and love. They taught me so much - how to live out the gospel, how to love my neighbour, how to seek God for who He was. For that I am forever grateful. They will be missed.
Mooooving (get it?) to the University of Guelph will be a new adventure, and though I "hate" change, I know God is already there, and that life with Him always requires faith.
And though Guelph isn't a large city, and Milton is a cross between small town and suburbia, I know I will come to love it, and the people there just as I did come to love Toronto, and that God can do big things still.
Some pics from my walk downtown yesterday:
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