I remember thinking when I started my internship last July that it seemed like a long final stretch to the finish line, but at the same time, knowing it would pass so quickly that at the end it would be as if I blinked my eyes and it was over.  Sure enough, the months have flown by, yet it’s as if I have lived an entire lifetime in just a few months.

John the Baptist said when Jesus came He would put an ax to the root.  The day I started my internship it was as if an announcement had been made in heaven that full permission was given to use the ax.  I faced my worst fears.  The challenges came without any warning.  It was like being in a meat grinder, because that’s what it took to get the roots out.  Oh, but how it has yielded the peaceful fruit of righteousness!!

–Mary