Im 20!

It was been such a nice Birthday! My friends blessed me in such creative ways. I woke up to the Happy Birthday song and had breakfast with my two friends Tam and Sandra. I got a chocolate mix and a box of oat Cereal! I love Oats now, before I was never into healthy cereals, it was always frosted flakes, but now I want raisins and no sugar. After breakfast we spent time praying for the YWAM Caribbean region. Later, we planned out our youth meeting that we’re hosting tomorrow night. At lunch my friends made me a fancy place setting full of flowers and a happy birthday apple. I know some people are not familiar with the happy birthday apple so I’ll explain…basically it’s an apple with a party hat and a smile! In the afternoon our team volunteered some manual labor at a local mans house. His name was Mark, and he is by far the most peculiar man I have ever encountered. He Loves Jesus and Worship, but he seems to have some disabilities when it comes to social etiquette. Then the girls took me out for veggie pizza and ice cream. I had such a fun day. God blessed me with little trinkets and tokens of Love throughout the day! I got on facebook and was almost afraid at all the birthday comments, it was overwhelming. I’m so grateful for the well wishing that took place.

In other news, Outreach is officially half way to an end. As the next few weeks come to a close I will have to start thinking about home life and readjusting to the life I left. I really feel God calling me into consling, which was never an idea in my mind, but I’m continually affirmed in it. I also have such a passion for theatre. Who knows? Well, God does and I’m cool with that. I am really excited for the cold weather. I really love wearing mittens and hats.

My Team is doing well, we are still having issues with one student, the problem is not entirely his sin it’s the fact that there has been some lying and deceiving happening. We have really been trying to be open and up front with one another. This concept has been really hard for me in the past. I don’t open up when I should and I say too much other times. I guess all believers, Christians, followers of Jesus (I don’t have a term to classify people that are trying to live this way) struggle in this area. I know I’ve matured in some ways, but I tend to allow a fear of man to hold me back. I also think when I’m around people that challenge what I say, it makes me more thoughtful about my opinions…ok I’ve gone off on a bunny trail, we are trying to live in the “light” and be/remain there. We’ve been listening to that DC Talk classic a lot. Pray, and I’ll pray for those reading, that we stay shining, there is so much freedom that comes with honesty and openness.

I’m really happy because I’ve been keeping up with my daily time with the Lord for this entire year! It sounds like such an accomplishment, and yet its only been 8 days. I’m still proud of myself and I hope I can keep it up. It so important to be refreshed by the scripture, I was listening to a speaker named Francis Chan. He gave an excellent lecture on truly wanting to know Gods will for our lives, without hesitating or being fearful. Sometimes we say we want Gods will because we know it’s the correct answer, but do we really want to know what He would ask us to; give up, change, leave behind, and accept if we sincerely wanted to live the way our Lord intended us to? This challenged me in so many ways. I want to be so sold out for God that I leave it all, and add whatever He Wills.