Hey Friends!!
The Lord is really showing me patience right now and just to really trust him. Today I had a support goal of
$4,000. I have $1,650 in my support account right now. This is all my fault, as I am just finalizing all of me
support raising letters, emails and such and not being much aware of my goals, except to have majority of
my funds before I leave in January. AIM is already using my funds to purchase items such as plane tickets so
these goals they set are important and I need to keep reminding myself of that!
Thank you, friends, for reading the letters and emails and for taking the time to come to my blog. I’ve never
kept a blog because I’ve always felt like who wants to read about what’s happening with me – and I’m just not
that creative. J So this is stretching me already.
I have been so encouraged by people in all walks of my life in this process. The blessings have come from
old neighbors and old college friends and new friends in just showing interest in what I’m doing and I really
appreciate it!
I want to encourage you a little bit too. This verse has been such a blessing to me in the process. I came
upon it as I was making this decision and it has given me so much peace in that decision and in the Lord.
That he is always there and will always be there in all my decisions!
Psalm 139: 1-18
“O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my
thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before
a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. You hem me in-behind and before; you have
laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can
I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I
make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of
the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness
will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will
shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in
my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I
know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was
woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for
me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, O
God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake, I am still with you.”
He knew me and you before everything and knows us after everything – it’s absolutely amazing. My prayer
is that I will always remember that about Him. Through this crazy journey where I will be in probably some
of the most uncomfortable situations in my life, I know that He wants me there and knew I would be there!!
AWESOME!!!!
Love all of you!
