My thoughts seem so scattered sometimes, its kind of really annoying. :) Can I please just straighten myself out and figure out who I am and what I want?
This setting is prime for adventure... I can do just about anything I want with my life at this point. There are SO many options! Sometimes I wish that someone would just come along and tell me what to do...
I'm thinking/praying about going back overseas! The church I've gone to most during my time in MN, Upper Room, sends two people out from the congregation to live in the Congo for an entire year to work with Heal Africa.
How amazing would that be??
My job description would include: support for Heal Africa, planning short term trips for UR, and corresponding with UR about the work through updates and pictures.
I'm sure there is more involved but that's what I know for now.

hmm...

"...for some who awaken to the call for healing, the weight of privilege and the weight of probable responsibility for systemic global injustices can be overwhelming. Because of this there is a temptation to believe that everything is wrong- what we buy, how we eat, where we live, the vehicles we drive. An acute sense of free- floating guilt haunts and paralyzes the person. In this state we become the worst kind of activists or moralists, motivated by shame instead of love and imagination. Our efforts at compassionate action need to go beyond mere sentimentality and translate into daily actions." (The Emerging Manifesto of Hope)

can you relate to this at all? i for sure can. at times i've found myself really frustrated with organized religion and the Church within walls and allowed myself to live believing that "everything is wrong". maybe its ok to see these faults, but i think that needs to motivate me in the other direction, toward love and action and sacrifice and vulnerability and other things that essentially produce life not death.

I was just sitting looking through some of my photos and reminiscing... here are a few of them.


This is Aaron Glenn and I at Jenna Grey and John Shomler's wedding. It was a good wedding.



This one was taken in Thailand last year. I tutored these kids for almost the entire time I was there... (the other chic is my best friend, megan). This is one of the outings the family took me on; we're at the Queen's Botanical Garden. The middle brother didn't want to be in the photo.


These are some of the children in the Darien jungle. This picture was taken in 2004.