HOT MESS

First things first. I want to say a big THANK YOU to all of you readers out there who bother to check in with me on here, facebook, voxer, twitter, e-mail, and my support account. This month, as all of you know, has been rough. My health was in shambles, living conditions were rough, ministry was hard, my patience was tested, my clothes were dirty, my skin started peeling off and my hair falling out because of lack of nutrition,  the shower situation was gross, the cock roaches were abundant, communication with family wasn’t that great due to lack of great internet. BUT!

I am alive. God is still good. He provides. He takes care of me and my team. No matter how bad things always seem to be out here, and trust me… sometimes they are BAD but God always comes through. He makes things good, He redeems bad situations, He makes me well. 

I have learned that my little bed I shared this past month was ENOUGH. The money in my bank account was ENOUGH. The shower situation was ENOUGH. The few times I did get to call home was ENOUGH. God keeps on doing what is GOOD. It’s a scary thought to just stop and think “What I have right now is enough” God gives you enough and what you need for where you are RIGHT NOW! It’s such a simple concept but when was the last time you actually thought about it?

I did indeed get sick one last time this month. I got food poisoning from our thanksgiving meal, of all times to get food poisoning. We went and all had burgers and chicken. It hit me real hard that I wasn’t with my family. I really, really missed the little things this year. But! God redeemed that as well. I was blessed enough to give the Thanksgiving sermon. It wasn’t really a Thanksgiving service, just a prayer service but I turned it into a Thanksgiving service because all I preached about was Thanksgiving and how God should be glorified. And I loved every second of it. 

God redeemed my awful month. God put enough money in my personal account to be able to afford a 2 day overnight safari with 22 other people on my squad. The other people went and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. 

The Safari was the most beautiful thing I have ever experienced. We were in one of the most remote places in the entire world. The Nogorongoro crater. I don’t know I was blessed enough to get this opportunity. I sat in a Rover for 48 hours enjoying the majestic creatures. The scenery was out of this world. The view was so stunning we screamed because we couldn’t believe it. It was the perfect and most amazing thing I could have done to debrief from this month. I woke up at 5am overlooking the Crater and watching the sunrise. I can’t believe my life sometimes and what God is doing for me. 

Today, I woke up again at a really early hour to watch the crazyness of 40 people try and do laundry by hand and throw it over the clothes line. I have mud caked 3 inches deep on my flip flops, I crammed into a tiny van of 20 or so people just to go to a coffee shop and write this. And you know what? I LOVE THAT THIS IS MY LIFE!

If you would like to see more pictures of my Safari adventure and of this month helping the people in the Tanzanian jungle please friend me on facebook or you can just look me up and click on my photos, they are all public. 

God Bless and thank you so much to everyone who reads my updates and writes me. It really did get me through this rough month.