Waiting is hard.   I feel like that could win some sort of understatement prize! I've been told that our generation in the USA is the least patient generation yet. We have access to so many things at the touch of a button! We can do things in seconds that used to take weeks or months. When we lived in the US, these convenient quick options did NOT mean that we got to have all kinds of extra free time. It simply meant that we could squeeze more in to our lives, and that felt like a cultural expectation. "Oh, you're not busy on that one night out of the week? Here are 5 different 'important' things for you to commit your time to." And let's be honest; having a full schedule, being asked to do MORE, being WANTED for a task or project or event, those things can make us FEEL important. So we keep up the pace no matter what.   So, now we live on an island. An island we can drive around in about an hour. An island that is NOT on the US's time-...

I will praise you, lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all the marvelous things you have done. I will be filled with joy because of you. I will sing praises to your name, O Most High. Psalms 9:1-2   February has been an incredible month full of new things, opportunities in ministry, and growing closer to the Lord. God has opened doors in ways we could have never thought possible and so much faster than we expected! Aaron preparing his lesson (above) for New Horizon's Juvenile Rehabilitation Center (below)   Our first big news is that Aaron has been able to spend 1 hour every week with the teenagers at New Horizons Juvenile Rehabilitation Center. Along with our friend Success who serves with Aaron, they have been working through a bible study called Life's Healing Choices by John Baker. The book encompasses the steps and principals that Celebrate Recovery is based on. Each week the students ask more questions and are starting to show more inter...

   My favorite birthday present is also an extremely accurate portrayal of the state of my heart two months in. Two places, two homes, two callings and purposes. Old and new. Two feelings about most things, every single day. If you read December's blog post you may have noticed that it was SUPER BORING. There were photos and a run down of the activities of the month, but not much else on the page. I still can't fully put into words where my heart was a month ago. Just a week after Christmas in a new country far from home and tradition and family and normal, I didn't know how I felt or should feel. I didn't have interesting things to say about what The Lord was teaching us. I was merely surviving as the realities of life here settled in.  This second month has brought on the feelings. So so so many feelings. High and lows, joys and sorrows. It has also brought us closer to Jesus, because feeling your feelings is a good way to find yourself falling at His feet. ...