jump.

This past week and a half has been amazingly jam-packed with goodness. Each day I get closer and closer to leaving and that makes me jump for joy and panic at the same time.

God have me alot of opportunites to grow and stretch for His glory and it's actually been a huge amount of fun. I didn't know there were so many spanish people around...ahah..all willing to chuckle at my apparent obession with learning their language.

Let me think of some things I learned this weekend..

1. God is in control of every detail of our lives, even if He allows us to think otherwise.
2. I reaaalllly do love warm rain. Thankyou Lord for that beautiful detail.
3. I try all to hard to fit God into a neat tricia-sized box. He has never, and will never fit into anything He created.
4. Chicken Enchiladas are realllly filling. Too much, and you will get nauseous.
5. Families are precious and beautiful things. Never take your family for granted.
6. Reggaetón orginated in Panama, and is best heard driving around white suburbia.
7. Followers of Christ could learn a thing or two from cliff jumpers...trust and GO.

The challenge to the missionary does not come on the line that people are difficult to get saved, that backsliders are difficult to relcaim, that there is a wedge of callous indifference; but along the line of his own personal relationship to Christ. "Belive ye that I am able to do this?" Our Lord puts that question steadily, it faces us in every individual case we meet. The one great challenge is - Do I know my Risen Lord? Do I know the power of His indwelling Spirit? Am I wise enough in God's sight, and foolish enough according to the world, to bank on what Jesus Christ has said, or am I abandoning the great supernatural position, which is the only call for a missionary, viz., boundless confiedence in Christ Jesus? If I take up any other meathod I depart altogether from the methods laid down by Our Lord - "All power is given unto Me...therefore go."

- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, Oct.27th