Hi There Cyberspace,
Well, look at me, less than 2 weeks since my last blog entry! I know there are people who blog every day, and I have two theories on that. Either 1- they lead way more interesting lives or 2- they really like to talk about themselves. Obviously, my friends that blog lead way more interesting lives than I do…
Well, I’ve had some awesome and some slightly disheartening stuff happen in the last week and a half. Let’s start with the disheartening…my ankle seems to have taken a turn back for the worse. I don’t know what’s going on, but for those of you that have know me for a few years, you know that I was on crutches for quite some time because of ankle issues. Those issues never went away, but the pain had gone away enough that I could almost normally walk around again. That’s over, now I use my cane almost all the time and I’ve even had to break out the crutches a couple times. I’m sure the problems would go away if I lost weight, but that’s tough with the pain, I can’t really do much for exercising. I swam when I lived in PA, but with all the travelling and being gone for weeks at a time, it doesn’t make fiscal sense to keep a gym membership, and I can’t really go to one gym all the time, because I’m all over New England.
Anyway, I went on Monday to listen to Graham Jones speak (http://www.gjmi.org/) and it was great. I had heard him speak before and I knew he spoke a lot on healing, because a huge part of his ministry is healing. So, I went on Monday, fully expecting to ask for healing, I didn’t. As Graham was talking about healing, he also was talking about being prepared to be healed, and God laid it on my heart that I wasn’t ready yet. Bummer…I really was hoping to leave there healed. What God did tell me to do was take Tuesday to pray and fast about what I need to do to prepare myself for the ministry ahead and the healing on my ankles.
Disclaimer: I know not everyone who reads this blog will believe that God speaks this way to people and all I can say is He does. I’ve felt God move more mightily in the last few months than I have in the entire rest of my life, and my prayer is that through my life and struggles, God will speak to you and bring you to the point where you will be open to hear Him speaking into your life.
So, Tuesday, I took a drive, it was a long drive, about 250 miles, all through New Hampshire. I needed to go somewhere I hadn’t been, I felt God was telling me to go somewhere I hadn’t been, because He is going to take me to a place I’ve never been. My route took north from Manchester to Lincoln, from Lincoln, east across the Kancamagus highway to Conway, south to Rye, then west back to Manchester. Along the way, I stopped in a couple of places and wrote down what I was thinking and praying about. Here’s most of what I wrote…
Sitting at the Hancock Trailhead on the Kancamagus Highway
Lord, I can’t see what’s there, but I know something is. Lord I don’t know what you have for me, but I know it’s better than what I’ve made for myself. Lord, this is my literal and figurative day as I sit somewhere I’ve never been, I look ahead to something I’ve never been.
I do believe, or I want to believe, Lord, help my unbelief!!!
Lord, why should I just expect You to take the first step, why am I reticent to move first and expect you to bless me. Lord, I want to have that quiet confidence that You do give. I want to have that assurance that You will provide me. Lord, let me take the first step (literally and figuratively!) let me renounce all that distracts me from You and focus on You and You alone.
Lord, I do need to be undone in your presence. I’m not, and I don’t let myself. I want, I need to be sold out, wholly dedicated and totally committed to you, not me.
Lord, let me remove the random noise from my life, let me remember this moment when sin calls out to me, when my former life calls out to me, when I am tempted to be drawn back into that life. Lord, that life is not what You want from me, you want only the best for me, let me want the same.
Lord, I love You, let my life be one long love letter to You.
Sitting at the Camp Fireside beach on Daniel Cater Rd
Lord, as I drove down a road I became so familiar with several years ago, I forgot about the ruts. Lord, I’m reminded of the ruts that we all get stuck in. Lord, I’m in a rut that I’ve been in for half my life. I came to a saving faith in You since then, Lord why am I still there?
Lord, I do want healing in my life. I want to be a whole person. I want to fill the gaps in my heart, not with the earthly, fleshly things of this world.
Lord, today is a day of healing, even if it’s not a day of healing for my ankle, lord I want it to be a day of healing for my heart.
Draw me close to You, never let me go. Even if I kick and scream, even if I want to leave, I know I don’t want to.
Sitting near Odiorne Point
Lord, how different a place I’m in now! Now I can see for miles out over the ocean. Some day I’ll be here, some day I’ll be able to loot at my life ahead and see just you, Lord. Even as the ocean farther out looks smooth, I can see the breakers crashing on the shore. Lord, guide me through the rough breakers ahead to the smooth ocean with You.
Lord, I pray that when I get to the end of my life, that I’ll be able to look back and see that I trusted You.
Lord, give me the calm assurance of Your love and when my ankles fail that I allow You to carry me.
As you can see, I kept being brought back to the following passage in Mark 9:14-29
When they came to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and the teachers of the law arguing with them. As soon as all the people saw Jesus, they were overwhelmed with wonder and ran to greet him.
"What are you arguing with them about?" he asked.
A man in the crowd answered, "Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of speech. Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive out the spirit, but they could not."
"O unbelieving generation," Jesus replied, "how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy to me."
So they brought him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.
Jesus asked the boy's father, "How long has he been like this?"
"From childhood," he answered. "It has often thrown him into fire or water to kill him. But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us."
" 'If you can'?" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for him who believes."
Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!"
When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the evil[a] spirit. "You deaf and mute spirit," he said, "I command you, come out of him and never enter him again."
The spirit shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, "He's dead." But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him to his feet, and he stood up.
After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we drive it out?"
He replied, "This kind can come out only by prayer."
I need to remove the noise, the things that block my intimacy with God, that means cutting down on TV, cutting down on computer time, and giving myself more quiet time, time alone with God.
Thanks for sticking with me through this long entry. I pray that God will bless you because of it, and I pray you all have a wonderful Christmas and blessed New Year.
Have a great day!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Eagles vs Chickens
Well, as it’s been quite a while (nearly 2 months!!) I figured I’d finally write a blog entry. Since my last entry we’ve been to 4 more schools, one in Connecticut (where my mom was able to come minister with us, Woohoo!) one in New York, one in Maine and we just got back from a school in Beverly, MA. Things have been good, Thanksgiving came and went, I was able to go over to my folks’ house, after I dropped almost 200 bucks to get my car fixed, but now it hopefully won’t scare me like it did when I thought we might be stranded in New York.
God continues to work on my issues of trusting in Him, since my last blog entry, I lost $100 of support a month and then got it back. I continue to be blessed by the support I receive by some folks who I know struggle to pay, but it blesses me so much, and I believe that God will bless my supporters as they give, perhaps sacrificially.
Yesterday, I spoke to the kids and told them a story about an eagle that thought it was a chicken. I love that story, because that reminds me that God created us to be eagles, even though sometimes we feel ok with scratching out life with the chickens. I no longer want to be a chicken; I want to be an eagle, one that Isaiah 40:28-31 speaks of…
Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
That’s been a verse I’ve loved for a while.
I’m currently really enjoying the season, there’s snow falling outside, and Christmas music coming out of the speakers, I’m thinking of going to make some hot chocolate…
Have a great day!
God continues to work on my issues of trusting in Him, since my last blog entry, I lost $100 of support a month and then got it back. I continue to be blessed by the support I receive by some folks who I know struggle to pay, but it blesses me so much, and I believe that God will bless my supporters as they give, perhaps sacrificially.
Yesterday, I spoke to the kids and told them a story about an eagle that thought it was a chicken. I love that story, because that reminds me that God created us to be eagles, even though sometimes we feel ok with scratching out life with the chickens. I no longer want to be a chicken; I want to be an eagle, one that Isaiah 40:28-31 speaks of…
Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
That’s been a verse I’ve loved for a while.
I’m currently really enjoying the season, there’s snow falling outside, and Christmas music coming out of the speakers, I’m thinking of going to make some hot chocolate…
Have a great day!
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Trust hijacked me
Hello there Cyberspace,
Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve written a post, but I’ve been on the road. We had 2 schools right in a row, then I went to visit folks in PA and pick up some more stuff.
Honestly, I’m having a little trouble deciding what to write now, I have plenty to write about the schools we were at, but I really feel like God is telling me to write about trust, so here it goes…
I like to think I’ve finally become a well-adjusted member of society, without any of the hang ups that I see other people having, but I’ve recently discovered that I’m not as together as I’d like to believe. My parents divorced when I was a kid and that threw me for a loop for quite some time, even through high school where I tried to run away twice. Since then, I think I’ve gotten better with that affecting me, and I have, but there was one area of my life where I had trouble letting God in and that was trust. I’ve come to realize that I’ve felt betrayed by my father and that’s led to me not really being able to let people into my life and trust them all the way. I’ve learned to fake it well, but I don’t want to be a fake anymore. God has really been breaking down the barriers of trust in me in the last few months. First of all, I have been able to start to trust a few people more, with even my most shameful thoughts and areas of my life.
But more importantly God told me that it was time to put up or shut up, either I trusted Him or I didn’t. I always though I trusted God, but that’s when life made it easy, in the last few months, life has made it harder, but ironically, it’s made it easier to trust God. But God had to do some major reworking of my life; first, he had to get me out of where it was so easy to mouth the words “I trust God” and got me to the point where I had to put substance behind those words. It started when I realized that when God told me to do something that I was afraid to do, and I didn’t do it, I was calling God a liar and telling Him there was something He hadn’t thought of. Since then, I’ve seen how God has been faithful to me, not because I’ve been faithful to Him (that doesn’t change, He’s faithful to us even when we’re not to Him) but I’ve been open to see it.
As I sit here munching on a couple donuts, listening to Kim Walker sing “How He Loves” I’m moved to tears when I read verses like Isaiah 26:4
“Trust in the LORD forever,
for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal”
and Isaiah 12:2
“Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.”
My prayer for everyone reading this is that God will open up your eyes to see that He is faithful to you. Humans are fallible, we will let someone down at some point, but GOD NEVER WILL.
Now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, maybe I’ll write about the schools another day.
Have a great day!
Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve written a post, but I’ve been on the road. We had 2 schools right in a row, then I went to visit folks in PA and pick up some more stuff.
Honestly, I’m having a little trouble deciding what to write now, I have plenty to write about the schools we were at, but I really feel like God is telling me to write about trust, so here it goes…
I like to think I’ve finally become a well-adjusted member of society, without any of the hang ups that I see other people having, but I’ve recently discovered that I’m not as together as I’d like to believe. My parents divorced when I was a kid and that threw me for a loop for quite some time, even through high school where I tried to run away twice. Since then, I think I’ve gotten better with that affecting me, and I have, but there was one area of my life where I had trouble letting God in and that was trust. I’ve come to realize that I’ve felt betrayed by my father and that’s led to me not really being able to let people into my life and trust them all the way. I’ve learned to fake it well, but I don’t want to be a fake anymore. God has really been breaking down the barriers of trust in me in the last few months. First of all, I have been able to start to trust a few people more, with even my most shameful thoughts and areas of my life.
But more importantly God told me that it was time to put up or shut up, either I trusted Him or I didn’t. I always though I trusted God, but that’s when life made it easy, in the last few months, life has made it harder, but ironically, it’s made it easier to trust God. But God had to do some major reworking of my life; first, he had to get me out of where it was so easy to mouth the words “I trust God” and got me to the point where I had to put substance behind those words. It started when I realized that when God told me to do something that I was afraid to do, and I didn’t do it, I was calling God a liar and telling Him there was something He hadn’t thought of. Since then, I’ve seen how God has been faithful to me, not because I’ve been faithful to Him (that doesn’t change, He’s faithful to us even when we’re not to Him) but I’ve been open to see it.
As I sit here munching on a couple donuts, listening to Kim Walker sing “How He Loves” I’m moved to tears when I read verses like Isaiah 26:4
“Trust in the LORD forever,
for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal”
and Isaiah 12:2
“Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.”
My prayer for everyone reading this is that God will open up your eyes to see that He is faithful to you. Humans are fallible, we will let someone down at some point, but GOD NEVER WILL.
Now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, maybe I’ll write about the schools another day.
Have a great day!
Monday, September 21, 2009
First week under my belt.
Hello There Cyberspace,
Well, our first week is under our belt, and what a great week it was! We were at Mount Hope Christian School in Burlington Mass. This school was perfect for me, I love working with Elementary and Pre-schoolers, and this school was preschool through 5th grade.
We ran two chapels each day one for the elementary school (K-5) which Pam led and she worked through a theme titled “Shoes” where we talk about…you guessed it, shoes. With that week, we’ll spell out the word shoes one letter for each day and each letter associates with a different word.
Monday S= Salvation
Tuesday H= Healing
Wednesday O= Obey (Obedience)
Thursday E= Endurance
Friday S= Sanctification
Each day we had a different shoe as an object lesson.
I led the preschool chapel with the assistance of the ever awesome Hudson Taylor Wells. We talked about the parables of Jesus while using blocks, a stuffed turtle, and my Yankees shirt. I had originally thought of using a pair of bulls to talk about the parables of Jesus, but with Hudson coming to help, I didn’t need to have a puppet to talk to, because I had a real person.
Cutest thing I heard last week “God wants us to be snuggly with Him” one day we had talked about slippers and how God wants us to be comfortable and get refreshed in Him.
Most awesome thing I heard last week “Hi! Hi, my name is Rachel.” I say that’s the most awesome because that little preschooler was talking to me and the teachers told me that’s the most she had spoken since she had been there. She was a new student and hadn’t really said much for the week she had been there, but she called out to me from across the playground to tell me her name.
God is an awesome God!
I have all this week off, but starting next week, we have 2 weeks in a row, I’m really looking forward to it. In October I get to go back to 2 schools I’ve already been to, I can’t wait for that to renew those relationships with the staff and the kids.
Last night I went to a worship service at a small house church, the speaker was a missionary from Wales, that is currently stationed in France. He talked about too often we just pray out of our faith, but we need to more often pray out of our authority, or more rather, the authority of Christ in us. We have a great authority when we can use that name, but we only can when we have Christ in our life.
He also talked about ministering out of Christ and not just out of our gift. Ministering out of our gift means that sometimes we go where we’re not called, because we think that’s where our gifting has taken us (just to be clear, I don’t feel that way at all about coming to Coastlands, if I was going to go somewhere comfortable, it wouldn’t have been into the mission field!) and sometimes we get stuck, because we’re using our gift, but we’re so tied to it, that we can’t see when we should change something.
Well, I must be off,
Have a great day!
Well, our first week is under our belt, and what a great week it was! We were at Mount Hope Christian School in Burlington Mass. This school was perfect for me, I love working with Elementary and Pre-schoolers, and this school was preschool through 5th grade.
We ran two chapels each day one for the elementary school (K-5) which Pam led and she worked through a theme titled “Shoes” where we talk about…you guessed it, shoes. With that week, we’ll spell out the word shoes one letter for each day and each letter associates with a different word.
Monday S= Salvation
Tuesday H= Healing
Wednesday O= Obey (Obedience)
Thursday E= Endurance
Friday S= Sanctification
Each day we had a different shoe as an object lesson.
I led the preschool chapel with the assistance of the ever awesome Hudson Taylor Wells. We talked about the parables of Jesus while using blocks, a stuffed turtle, and my Yankees shirt. I had originally thought of using a pair of bulls to talk about the parables of Jesus, but with Hudson coming to help, I didn’t need to have a puppet to talk to, because I had a real person.
Cutest thing I heard last week “God wants us to be snuggly with Him” one day we had talked about slippers and how God wants us to be comfortable and get refreshed in Him.
Most awesome thing I heard last week “Hi! Hi, my name is Rachel.” I say that’s the most awesome because that little preschooler was talking to me and the teachers told me that’s the most she had spoken since she had been there. She was a new student and hadn’t really said much for the week she had been there, but she called out to me from across the playground to tell me her name.
God is an awesome God!
I have all this week off, but starting next week, we have 2 weeks in a row, I’m really looking forward to it. In October I get to go back to 2 schools I’ve already been to, I can’t wait for that to renew those relationships with the staff and the kids.
Last night I went to a worship service at a small house church, the speaker was a missionary from Wales, that is currently stationed in France. He talked about too often we just pray out of our faith, but we need to more often pray out of our authority, or more rather, the authority of Christ in us. We have a great authority when we can use that name, but we only can when we have Christ in our life.
He also talked about ministering out of Christ and not just out of our gift. Ministering out of our gift means that sometimes we go where we’re not called, because we think that’s where our gifting has taken us (just to be clear, I don’t feel that way at all about coming to Coastlands, if I was going to go somewhere comfortable, it wouldn’t have been into the mission field!) and sometimes we get stuck, because we’re using our gift, but we’re so tied to it, that we can’t see when we should change something.
Well, I must be off,
Have a great day!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Parking Adventures and Feeling Convicted
Hi There Cyberspace,
Well, it looks like I’m gonna get blogs done every couple of weeks at least when we haven’t been to schools. I just don’t seem to have it in me to write one every week, I just can’t imagine that people will want to hear what I have to say that often.
Anyway…we start at schools next week!!! I’m very excited! I must admit, I’ve gotten a bit bored these last few weeks, I just haven’t had that much to do.
I did have a bit of excitement yesterday… I had to go to city hall here in Manchester to start the process of getting my car registered in New Hampshire and I had a run in with a meter reader. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m sure they have a tough job, and I’m sure they get argued with a lot, but that does not give them an excuse to not be observant. Manchester has a new system for parking that has done away with regular meters, and you go to the center of the block of parking spaces to a little kiosk to get a receipt to put on your dashboard to show that you paid to park. Well, as I was finishing up at the kiosk (which wouldn’t take my quarters so I had to pay with my debit card) I noticed the meter reader walk past me, from the direction of my car. I was worried that she might have given me a ticket, but thought she must have realized that the car without a receipt might belong to the big guy standing at the kiosk, no such luck.
I got back to my car and saw a $10 parking ticket tucked under the wiper. Since I wasn’t going to stand for this, as I did exactly what I was supposed to, I found the reader and asked her why I got the ticket. She tried to tell me that I had parked, conducted my business and then, when I realized she was giving me a ticket, I went to the kiosk. After she insisted I left my car (which you have to do unless you park right in front of the kiosk) she then told me she didn’t see me at the kiosk. Now, when I try to hide, I usually do a pretty good job, but when I don’t try, I believe the only way I could make myself more obvious would be to walk around with a neon sign over my head and a marching band behind me. I’m 6’ 4” and a big guy, I wasn’t even wearing camouflage so I don’t know how she missed me. But eventually she did void the ticket, but not before I decided I really, strongly dislike the parking system in downtown Manchester.
To move on, God has recently been impressing on my heart that I need to be the same person in private that I am in public. Now it’s not like when people aren’t around I go out and set things on fire or boo the president, but I always want to be a genuine person and I want to honor God in everything I do, and that doesn’t always happen in my private life. Luke 12:2,3 tells us
“There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.”
I know that God is always near and can always see what I think and do, the question is…does that convict or comfort me?
Have a great day!
Well, it looks like I’m gonna get blogs done every couple of weeks at least when we haven’t been to schools. I just don’t seem to have it in me to write one every week, I just can’t imagine that people will want to hear what I have to say that often.
Anyway…we start at schools next week!!! I’m very excited! I must admit, I’ve gotten a bit bored these last few weeks, I just haven’t had that much to do.
I did have a bit of excitement yesterday… I had to go to city hall here in Manchester to start the process of getting my car registered in New Hampshire and I had a run in with a meter reader. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m sure they have a tough job, and I’m sure they get argued with a lot, but that does not give them an excuse to not be observant. Manchester has a new system for parking that has done away with regular meters, and you go to the center of the block of parking spaces to a little kiosk to get a receipt to put on your dashboard to show that you paid to park. Well, as I was finishing up at the kiosk (which wouldn’t take my quarters so I had to pay with my debit card) I noticed the meter reader walk past me, from the direction of my car. I was worried that she might have given me a ticket, but thought she must have realized that the car without a receipt might belong to the big guy standing at the kiosk, no such luck.
I got back to my car and saw a $10 parking ticket tucked under the wiper. Since I wasn’t going to stand for this, as I did exactly what I was supposed to, I found the reader and asked her why I got the ticket. She tried to tell me that I had parked, conducted my business and then, when I realized she was giving me a ticket, I went to the kiosk. After she insisted I left my car (which you have to do unless you park right in front of the kiosk) she then told me she didn’t see me at the kiosk. Now, when I try to hide, I usually do a pretty good job, but when I don’t try, I believe the only way I could make myself more obvious would be to walk around with a neon sign over my head and a marching band behind me. I’m 6’ 4” and a big guy, I wasn’t even wearing camouflage so I don’t know how she missed me. But eventually she did void the ticket, but not before I decided I really, strongly dislike the parking system in downtown Manchester.
To move on, God has recently been impressing on my heart that I need to be the same person in private that I am in public. Now it’s not like when people aren’t around I go out and set things on fire or boo the president, but I always want to be a genuine person and I want to honor God in everything I do, and that doesn’t always happen in my private life. Luke 12:2,3 tells us
“There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.”
I know that God is always near and can always see what I think and do, the question is…does that convict or comfort me?
Have a great day!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Travels and new baby
Hello Cyberspace,
It’s been 2 weeks since I’ve written, but a lot has happened in those 2 weeks. I’ve been busy and couldn’t really write, also it was super hot and I didn’t want my fingers to melt to the keyboard.
So, here’s were things are at…last Monday I moved to Manchester, NH. The move went well, though as I said super hot and very sweaty. Hudson Taylor Wells is super awesome because he moved just about all of my stuff from my car to the upstairs apartment. I carried a little, but he did the most, by far.
Saturday, I made it up to Sentinel for the 60th anniversary get together, that was great! I saw people I haven’t seen in forever, and just enjoyed the day at Sentinel. Sentinel is a great place and I am so happy I have been able to spend so many years there, I hope to be able to go back again.
Tuesday, I drove up to Portland, Maine with Adam to see our new niece, Adrianna. I must say, I think she is the cutest baby ever. Pics are up on Facebook and will probably be up on Flickr soon.
I can’t help but thank God for his provision, I made it safely to Manchester, I made it up to camp, over to Rochester and up to Portland safely, and God brought a beautiful baby into the world. Praise God!
John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
Have a great day!
It’s been 2 weeks since I’ve written, but a lot has happened in those 2 weeks. I’ve been busy and couldn’t really write, also it was super hot and I didn’t want my fingers to melt to the keyboard.
So, here’s were things are at…last Monday I moved to Manchester, NH. The move went well, though as I said super hot and very sweaty. Hudson Taylor Wells is super awesome because he moved just about all of my stuff from my car to the upstairs apartment. I carried a little, but he did the most, by far.
Saturday, I made it up to Sentinel for the 60th anniversary get together, that was great! I saw people I haven’t seen in forever, and just enjoyed the day at Sentinel. Sentinel is a great place and I am so happy I have been able to spend so many years there, I hope to be able to go back again.
Tuesday, I drove up to Portland, Maine with Adam to see our new niece, Adrianna. I must say, I think she is the cutest baby ever. Pics are up on Facebook and will probably be up on Flickr soon.
I can’t help but thank God for his provision, I made it safely to Manchester, I made it up to camp, over to Rochester and up to Portland safely, and God brought a beautiful baby into the world. Praise God!
John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
Have a great day!
Monday, August 10, 2009
Worrying is dumb
Hello there Cyberspace,
Again, not much going on for me right now, just hanging out at Brad’s waiting to move to New Hampshire. Just a week to go! I’m looking forward to moving up even more since I was able to reconnect with a few of the youth group members of the group I led in New Hampshire. I need to start looking for a church in the Manchester area, any suggestions?
I’m hoping to be able to impart some big things that God is teaching me at some point, but when you’re in a holding pattern, like I am, I just don’t feel that there’s a lot of new stuff popping up in my life for God to use to teach me with. Not that that’s a bad thing at all, I am definitely able to accept and be very happy that there aren’t big crises that are going on in my life right now, and I can thank God for that!
There are a couple of things that I have thought a bit more about since I’ve been raising my own support…I surprised myself about worrying about the future the other day. Financially, I’m in an ok shape for the next couple of months, but I was thinking ahead to the point after that, the point where my bank account will (might) run out and I might not be able to pay my bills. I believe in planning, but I don’t believe in worrying too much about the future, God has it in His hands, but I found my planning turning into worrying, not a good thing. Fortunately, I was reminded of this verse:
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
I need to stop worrying, so I did. Thank you Jesus!
Have a great day!
Again, not much going on for me right now, just hanging out at Brad’s waiting to move to New Hampshire. Just a week to go! I’m looking forward to moving up even more since I was able to reconnect with a few of the youth group members of the group I led in New Hampshire. I need to start looking for a church in the Manchester area, any suggestions?
I’m hoping to be able to impart some big things that God is teaching me at some point, but when you’re in a holding pattern, like I am, I just don’t feel that there’s a lot of new stuff popping up in my life for God to use to teach me with. Not that that’s a bad thing at all, I am definitely able to accept and be very happy that there aren’t big crises that are going on in my life right now, and I can thank God for that!
There are a couple of things that I have thought a bit more about since I’ve been raising my own support…I surprised myself about worrying about the future the other day. Financially, I’m in an ok shape for the next couple of months, but I was thinking ahead to the point after that, the point where my bank account will (might) run out and I might not be able to pay my bills. I believe in planning, but I don’t believe in worrying too much about the future, God has it in His hands, but I found my planning turning into worrying, not a good thing. Fortunately, I was reminded of this verse:
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
I need to stop worrying, so I did. Thank you Jesus!
Have a great day!
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Church talk and a new bed
Hello There Cyberspace,
I know I said I’d try, but I managed to not get in an entry last week. Oh well.
Let me give you an update on where I stand now…I am all moved in at Brad’s, actually I’ve been all moved in for a few days, but by moved in, I mean all my stuff is in the garage and I’m living out of my suitcases in Brad’s guest room. Even though it’s Brad’s guest room, it’s way nicer than my room was in my apartment, some of the biggest differences are…a way bigger bed that’s in way better shape, this room has a door (my room in my apartment was separated from the living room by a set of stairs) and I don’t have to go up and down a set of stairs to get to the bathroom. It was only 3 steps up and 3 steps down, and not a big deal now, but when I was on crutches for months, it was a huge pain.
Less than three weeks till I move back t New Hampshire! I’m pretty excited! I will miss my friends and my church down here, but I’m happy to be able to see folks from New England that I haven’t seen in a while, and very excited to see how God will use me as I minister with Coastlands.
I spoke in church on Sunday and I thought it went very well. I started off with playing a little Bible Ball, some “What’s Wrong with This Picture?” and a Funky Food object lesson. I will hopefully be able to get the recording online soon, I’m still working on the best way to do that.
Not much else is going on, I’m sorting through my stuff to see what else I can get rid of, I’ve already taken 4 boxes of stuff over to the local thrift shop and I imagine more will go over there soon.
I ended up needing to get rid of my bed, it was in pretty terrible shape and it wasn’t worth bringing it with me, so if anyone knows of someone who has a bed available to donate, I would take it off your hands! I’ve been on a twin bed for years, and my bedroom will be kind of small, so a twin bed would probably be best for me. It would be awesome if the bed were in easy driving distance of Manchester, NH also.
Well, I’m going to get going, it’s starting to thunder here and I don’t like to keep my computer on during a thunderstorm.
Have a great day!
I know I said I’d try, but I managed to not get in an entry last week. Oh well.
Let me give you an update on where I stand now…I am all moved in at Brad’s, actually I’ve been all moved in for a few days, but by moved in, I mean all my stuff is in the garage and I’m living out of my suitcases in Brad’s guest room. Even though it’s Brad’s guest room, it’s way nicer than my room was in my apartment, some of the biggest differences are…a way bigger bed that’s in way better shape, this room has a door (my room in my apartment was separated from the living room by a set of stairs) and I don’t have to go up and down a set of stairs to get to the bathroom. It was only 3 steps up and 3 steps down, and not a big deal now, but when I was on crutches for months, it was a huge pain.
Less than three weeks till I move back t New Hampshire! I’m pretty excited! I will miss my friends and my church down here, but I’m happy to be able to see folks from New England that I haven’t seen in a while, and very excited to see how God will use me as I minister with Coastlands.
I spoke in church on Sunday and I thought it went very well. I started off with playing a little Bible Ball, some “What’s Wrong with This Picture?” and a Funky Food object lesson. I will hopefully be able to get the recording online soon, I’m still working on the best way to do that.
Not much else is going on, I’m sorting through my stuff to see what else I can get rid of, I’ve already taken 4 boxes of stuff over to the local thrift shop and I imagine more will go over there soon.
I ended up needing to get rid of my bed, it was in pretty terrible shape and it wasn’t worth bringing it with me, so if anyone knows of someone who has a bed available to donate, I would take it off your hands! I’ve been on a twin bed for years, and my bedroom will be kind of small, so a twin bed would probably be best for me. It would be awesome if the bed were in easy driving distance of Manchester, NH also.
Well, I’m going to get going, it’s starting to thunder here and I don’t like to keep my computer on during a thunderstorm.
Have a great day!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Back to technology
Hello Cyberspace,
Can’t write long because I’m in the middle of packing to move, but I wanted to at least get an update out.
I spent last week with my folks at our cottage in Vermont, my friend, Brad and I went up. It was a good week, the weather was cool and sometimes rainy, but I’d actually rather have that than hot and humid. I was mostly without technology the whole week, no internet, not even a cell phone signal at the cottage. I managed to get to Panera Bread on Thursday to at least check e-mail on my iPod. I did have my iPod with me all week, but without internet, all I could do is listen to music and watch movies. I did read, I read 4 books, about 1400 pages. When I finally settle back in New England in August, I think I might not put a TV in my bedroom, I think that’ll cause me to read more.
Probably the biggest news I got last week was that Pam bought a house! Now Coastlands has a ministry base!! Praise God!!! That means that instead of moving to Vermont with my parents, I’ll be moving into the upstairs apartment at the Coastlands house. I’m happy about that. I mean I love my parents and would have happily moved in there, but I wasn’t 100% happy about it. After living on my own for a decade, it would have felt like I was taking a big step backward to move back in with them.
Well, that’s about it from me, Saturday I move in at Brad’s in Souderton, then in August, up to Manchester, NH!
Have a great day!
Can’t write long because I’m in the middle of packing to move, but I wanted to at least get an update out.
I spent last week with my folks at our cottage in Vermont, my friend, Brad and I went up. It was a good week, the weather was cool and sometimes rainy, but I’d actually rather have that than hot and humid. I was mostly without technology the whole week, no internet, not even a cell phone signal at the cottage. I managed to get to Panera Bread on Thursday to at least check e-mail on my iPod. I did have my iPod with me all week, but without internet, all I could do is listen to music and watch movies. I did read, I read 4 books, about 1400 pages. When I finally settle back in New England in August, I think I might not put a TV in my bedroom, I think that’ll cause me to read more.
Probably the biggest news I got last week was that Pam bought a house! Now Coastlands has a ministry base!! Praise God!!! That means that instead of moving to Vermont with my parents, I’ll be moving into the upstairs apartment at the Coastlands house. I’m happy about that. I mean I love my parents and would have happily moved in there, but I wasn’t 100% happy about it. After living on my own for a decade, it would have felt like I was taking a big step backward to move back in with them.
Well, that’s about it from me, Saturday I move in at Brad’s in Souderton, then in August, up to Manchester, NH!
Have a great day!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
church talks and milestones
Hello Cyberspace,
I figured it was time for another blog, I’d like to try to post at least once every couple of weeks, ideally once a week, that way I can keep everyone well updated on my ministry. I can’t guarantee that a biweekly post will happen, but that’s my goal. It’ll be harder during the summer when I don’t have any schools to go to, but I can at least keep everyone updated on my fundraising progress.
I actually hit what I think is a neat little milestone the other day, I have a Facebook group for people that want to support me, at least in prayer and we hit the member count that if everyone in the group pledged $10 a month, by bills would al be paid. You may think it’s silly, and I know that not everyone in the group can or will pledge, but it was an encouragement for me, to know that at least that many people are thinking about my ministry and praying for me.
I have a date set for my first church talk! I’m very excited for that! One of the best ways for me to get the word out about what I’m doing is to talk in churches, in front of at least a large group of people, preferably the entire congregation. I had dinner with my pastor last night and we set up July 26th, for me to speak at my church. I would love to speak at other churches, but I need people in those churches to spearhead that happening. Several years ago, I tried to do some fundraising so I could work more full-time at the church I was attending, I contacted churches that I had relationships with, and I saw very little interest. I met with two churches in Vermont, and had maybe a total of 7 people between both churches. So, one huge way of helping me is to get me in front of your church.
I already know that I won’t get a blog out next week, because I’m heading up to Vermont, and will be out of touch with most technology. My family has a cottage there, and next week is my parents’ week, so I’ll be headed up with a friend of mine for the week, from this Saturday until next Saturday. It’ll be nice, I really love the cottage, it’s a nice little place with an awesome porch to relax on, and I’ll get to spend some time with a great friend and my family.
Time to get going, I need to get packing, I’m moving soon!
Have a great day!
I figured it was time for another blog, I’d like to try to post at least once every couple of weeks, ideally once a week, that way I can keep everyone well updated on my ministry. I can’t guarantee that a biweekly post will happen, but that’s my goal. It’ll be harder during the summer when I don’t have any schools to go to, but I can at least keep everyone updated on my fundraising progress.
I actually hit what I think is a neat little milestone the other day, I have a Facebook group for people that want to support me, at least in prayer and we hit the member count that if everyone in the group pledged $10 a month, by bills would al be paid. You may think it’s silly, and I know that not everyone in the group can or will pledge, but it was an encouragement for me, to know that at least that many people are thinking about my ministry and praying for me.
I have a date set for my first church talk! I’m very excited for that! One of the best ways for me to get the word out about what I’m doing is to talk in churches, in front of at least a large group of people, preferably the entire congregation. I had dinner with my pastor last night and we set up July 26th, for me to speak at my church. I would love to speak at other churches, but I need people in those churches to spearhead that happening. Several years ago, I tried to do some fundraising so I could work more full-time at the church I was attending, I contacted churches that I had relationships with, and I saw very little interest. I met with two churches in Vermont, and had maybe a total of 7 people between both churches. So, one huge way of helping me is to get me in front of your church.
I already know that I won’t get a blog out next week, because I’m heading up to Vermont, and will be out of touch with most technology. My family has a cottage there, and next week is my parents’ week, so I’ll be headed up with a friend of mine for the week, from this Saturday until next Saturday. It’ll be nice, I really love the cottage, it’s a nice little place with an awesome porch to relax on, and I’ll get to spend some time with a great friend and my family.
Time to get going, I need to get packing, I’m moving soon!
Have a great day!
Monday, June 22, 2009
Back to Reality
Hello Cyberspace,
So, I got back from a SEW on Saturday (for future reference SEW means Spiritual Emphasis Week) and I am so happy I was able to go, it was an awesome personal confirmation that that is what I’m meant to do. I took the train up to Croton-Harmon NY, and was picked up there to end up in beautiful Putnam Valley NY for a week at Hudson Valley Christian Academy. By the way, HVCA is a super fun school with a great bunch of teachers and a really fun bunch of kids. I hope to have pictures up on my website soon. We stayed with a great host family who were very generous with their hospitality. So generous, in fact, that I’m planning to spend an extra weekend with them right before we’re back at HVCA in October.
As I was going through the week last week, I was reflecting on how happy and blessed I am to be called to Coastlands and this verse popped out to me…
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” James 1:17
I think of that verse, and I think of last week and I can’t help but thank God for the privilege of ministering for Him. It makes me realize how much more God blesses us beyond what we expect. I was expecting a good week, and I got an awesome week! I was expecting a place to stay for a few days and got some amazing new friends! I was able to spend a good chunk of time with the Pre-K class at HVCA and I loved it. I could spend all day sitting with kids reading books to them. I got to go to a Father’s Day celebration with the Kindergarteners and was blessed to see the kids play games with their dads. And I was able to share bacon and pancakes with the first graders, anyone who knows me, should know how much I love bacon.
Though now it’s back to reality. My car is still not running very well, each time I drive it, I wonder if that’ll be the time it breaks down. We know the Apostle Paul had a thorn in his flesh, and we’re not really sure what it was, but I’m pretty sure that mine’s my car. I keep having the same problem, I hope once I can get it fixed it’ll keep for a while.
I’m now working on getting my mailing together and getting the website up. I’m also working on getting a talk together that I can share with churches. Let me know if I can come to your church!
All right, I’m gonna get going.
Have a great day!
So, I got back from a SEW on Saturday (for future reference SEW means Spiritual Emphasis Week) and I am so happy I was able to go, it was an awesome personal confirmation that that is what I’m meant to do. I took the train up to Croton-Harmon NY, and was picked up there to end up in beautiful Putnam Valley NY for a week at Hudson Valley Christian Academy. By the way, HVCA is a super fun school with a great bunch of teachers and a really fun bunch of kids. I hope to have pictures up on my website soon. We stayed with a great host family who were very generous with their hospitality. So generous, in fact, that I’m planning to spend an extra weekend with them right before we’re back at HVCA in October.
As I was going through the week last week, I was reflecting on how happy and blessed I am to be called to Coastlands and this verse popped out to me…
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” James 1:17
I think of that verse, and I think of last week and I can’t help but thank God for the privilege of ministering for Him. It makes me realize how much more God blesses us beyond what we expect. I was expecting a good week, and I got an awesome week! I was expecting a place to stay for a few days and got some amazing new friends! I was able to spend a good chunk of time with the Pre-K class at HVCA and I loved it. I could spend all day sitting with kids reading books to them. I got to go to a Father’s Day celebration with the Kindergarteners and was blessed to see the kids play games with their dads. And I was able to share bacon and pancakes with the first graders, anyone who knows me, should know how much I love bacon.
Though now it’s back to reality. My car is still not running very well, each time I drive it, I wonder if that’ll be the time it breaks down. We know the Apostle Paul had a thorn in his flesh, and we’re not really sure what it was, but I’m pretty sure that mine’s my car. I keep having the same problem, I hope once I can get it fixed it’ll keep for a while.
I’m now working on getting my mailing together and getting the website up. I’m also working on getting a talk together that I can share with churches. Let me know if I can come to your church!
All right, I’m gonna get going.
Have a great day!
Sunday, June 7, 2009
June 7, 2009
Hello Again Cyberspace,
Well, I’m sitting here while my friend is up working on my car. I hope he’ll get it finished at some point. I am extremely grateful for his assistance, and by assistance, I obviously mean, I bought the part, and he’s installing it for me. Though, with the small car that I own, it makes it pretty difficult to get the alternator off and the new one on, so I appreciate him even more for that.
I really do thank God for my friends. I have another friend who has lent me his car for almost a month at this point. I have still other friends who will be down the shore this weekend (yeah, I now I’m missing a word there, but since it’s the Jersey shore, I’m obligated to say “down the shore” as opposed to “down at the shore” or “down to the shore” I don’t understand it, I just accept it.) and I’ll be able to join them for a couple of days thanks not only to their generosity, but still another friend’s generosity is being willing to let me ride with her down. God is Good!
I’m getting even closer and closer to getting all my literature together and out. This week, I planned out my website, and that’ll hopefully get up and running in a couple of weeks. I’ll need to get a relatively simple one out to start, because my friend who is going to be my WEBMASTER, will need some time to get it out, but we’ll all be able to see a nice, spiffy site soon, I hope.
We have a spiritual emphasis week coming up next week, starting on June 15th, and I am really looking forward to it. I mean, I should, since that’ll be my full-time ministry come September and I love it, but also because I’m looking forward to going away. I love being able to minister to kids, and serve with the team members.
Well, I’m going to get going.
Have a great day!
Well, I’m sitting here while my friend is up working on my car. I hope he’ll get it finished at some point. I am extremely grateful for his assistance, and by assistance, I obviously mean, I bought the part, and he’s installing it for me. Though, with the small car that I own, it makes it pretty difficult to get the alternator off and the new one on, so I appreciate him even more for that.
I really do thank God for my friends. I have another friend who has lent me his car for almost a month at this point. I have still other friends who will be down the shore this weekend (yeah, I now I’m missing a word there, but since it’s the Jersey shore, I’m obligated to say “down the shore” as opposed to “down at the shore” or “down to the shore” I don’t understand it, I just accept it.) and I’ll be able to join them for a couple of days thanks not only to their generosity, but still another friend’s generosity is being willing to let me ride with her down. God is Good!
I’m getting even closer and closer to getting all my literature together and out. This week, I planned out my website, and that’ll hopefully get up and running in a couple of weeks. I’ll need to get a relatively simple one out to start, because my friend who is going to be my WEBMASTER, will need some time to get it out, but we’ll all be able to see a nice, spiffy site soon, I hope.
We have a spiritual emphasis week coming up next week, starting on June 15th, and I am really looking forward to it. I mean, I should, since that’ll be my full-time ministry come September and I love it, but also because I’m looking forward to going away. I love being able to minister to kids, and serve with the team members.
Well, I’m going to get going.
Have a great day!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Getting prepared...
Hello again Cyberspace…
So, I think the hardest thing about writing a blog is going to be getting over the fact that I think people don’t really care what I think. I know I’m not Brad Pitt or anything, but people are going to want to know what’s going on with me, so if I bore anyone, I’m sorry, please feel free to comment about what you’d like to hear more of.
Here goes, not much happening at the moment (maybe that’s why I have nothing to write about…) I’ve been working on getting some information together so I can send it out, the fundraising letter and the like. Today I was working on just what I want my website to have and the response cards that will go with my letter.
At some point I need to get going again on packing and sorting, but that can wait for now.
I’m really getting excited about going to Hudson Valley in 2 weeks! I just found out they’re having Spirit Week that week, different dress up days all week, pajama day, sports day, stuff like that. I’m really looking forward to that. I should also actually have some pictures to put up on the website after that.
That’s it for now, have a great day!
So, I think the hardest thing about writing a blog is going to be getting over the fact that I think people don’t really care what I think. I know I’m not Brad Pitt or anything, but people are going to want to know what’s going on with me, so if I bore anyone, I’m sorry, please feel free to comment about what you’d like to hear more of.
Here goes, not much happening at the moment (maybe that’s why I have nothing to write about…) I’ve been working on getting some information together so I can send it out, the fundraising letter and the like. Today I was working on just what I want my website to have and the response cards that will go with my letter.
At some point I need to get going again on packing and sorting, but that can wait for now.
I’m really getting excited about going to Hudson Valley in 2 weeks! I just found out they’re having Spirit Week that week, different dress up days all week, pajama day, sports day, stuff like that. I’m really looking forward to that. I should also actually have some pictures to put up on the website after that.
That’s it for now, have a great day!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
I'm gonna be a missionary!
Hi All,
I know, I know, I know, it's been a while since I have posted something on here, but since I don't think anyone really reads this blog anyway, it's not really a big deal, right?
Anyway, let me tell all of you in cyberspace what's going on with me...I'm going to become a missionary! I'm not going overseas; I'll be a missionary to New England. Starting in the Fall, I’ll be going out full-time with Coastlands Consultants, going all over New England, and to a couple of schools in New York helping to lead Spiritual Emphasis weeks. Once I get my website up and running, I’ll be able to give some more information, and hopefully post pictures.
Hopefully, some of you know me well enough to know that I was working for a builder just outside of Philly, well, I was laid off from that, and then they filed for Chapter 11. I can't say I was terribly surprised, I mean I was working for a builder, but it still kinda stunk. After I was laid off, I decided to take a couple weeks and volunteer for Coastlands (their website is www.coastlands.us) and while I was doing that, I felt God telling me to do that full-time. Now, I keep alternating between being excited and being scared. Excited, because I've never felt God so clearly speaking to me, but scared, because I now need to raise my own support. I know, if God has called me to it, He will provide, and I know that in my heart, but my heart is still trying to get that message through to my brain.
Oh well.
Now that I’m going to be doing this, I’ll want to keep up better about how things are doing, and how the ministry is going. Maybe I’ll be able to get some old articles I wrote about Coastlands and post them up here, look for them.
All right, now it’s time to go sort out stuff to get rid of it. Part of my adventure this summer is sorting through all my stuff and getting rid of most of it, I just need to sort it between the trash, selling it on Craigslist, giving it to a friend, or donating it to a thrift store.
Have a great day!
I know, I know, I know, it's been a while since I have posted something on here, but since I don't think anyone really reads this blog anyway, it's not really a big deal, right?
Anyway, let me tell all of you in cyberspace what's going on with me...I'm going to become a missionary! I'm not going overseas; I'll be a missionary to New England. Starting in the Fall, I’ll be going out full-time with Coastlands Consultants, going all over New England, and to a couple of schools in New York helping to lead Spiritual Emphasis weeks. Once I get my website up and running, I’ll be able to give some more information, and hopefully post pictures.
Hopefully, some of you know me well enough to know that I was working for a builder just outside of Philly, well, I was laid off from that, and then they filed for Chapter 11. I can't say I was terribly surprised, I mean I was working for a builder, but it still kinda stunk. After I was laid off, I decided to take a couple weeks and volunteer for Coastlands (their website is www.coastlands.us) and while I was doing that, I felt God telling me to do that full-time. Now, I keep alternating between being excited and being scared. Excited, because I've never felt God so clearly speaking to me, but scared, because I now need to raise my own support. I know, if God has called me to it, He will provide, and I know that in my heart, but my heart is still trying to get that message through to my brain.
Oh well.
Now that I’m going to be doing this, I’ll want to keep up better about how things are doing, and how the ministry is going. Maybe I’ll be able to get some old articles I wrote about Coastlands and post them up here, look for them.
All right, now it’s time to go sort out stuff to get rid of it. Part of my adventure this summer is sorting through all my stuff and getting rid of most of it, I just need to sort it between the trash, selling it on Craigslist, giving it to a friend, or donating it to a thrift store.
Have a great day!
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