Fun times in Hawaii!!!!

I am here safe and sound! I have been about a week and finally have a feel for the campus and the small town on this island. Yesterday I even was able to go snorkeling. Man God is so creative with colors, shapes and sizes! Today we are going to head up to the waterfalls and check out some of the other tourist sites before the students start arriving next week.
I am going to be working in the communication and media department here on campus. My specific jobs will be to write articles for the magazine and newspaper, design pages, and learn from Kona in order to apply stuff in Colorado Springs.
I also will work in the aloha cafe (campus coffee shop) with the hopes of also starting one in Colorado Springs.
Please continue to be praying for me as I transition and get settles. I will am excited for the students to arrive and to be able to minister to them as they are learning about God's character and heart for missions!
Thanks!
Here is a picture from my living rooom!!!

Nepal and Thailand

I have just recently been able to see God work in two amazing countries. I spent a month in Nepal and two months in Thailand during my field assisgment from the school of strategic missions.
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There are all kinds of crazy stories and moments that I am sure will stay with me as I continue to figure out how to serve God around the world. How to share his glory and his majesty to every person that I come in contact with. How to live out this faith in Jesus? I have decided that the more that I get to know who God is truly in this world the more responsiblity I have to share him with the world. His desire is for the lost and my life is committed to following hard after Him.

Psalms

I recently have been challenged to reread the psalms and really look at them from a fresh perspective.
After reading 5 and 6 I have come to a have a new excitement about poetry in general. There seems to be a partner to David's psalms that I had never caught before. I feel like he makes his requests and declares his faith at the beginning. Then draws back on what he has learned about God's character in order to have a stronger basis of where is faith is at. Then realizing his authority and the truth of the situation he has brought before the Lord he starts to see his part in the whole thing. He repents and declares his unworthiness and accepts the extension of grace; therefore, finishing with a declaration of renewed confidence in who God is and how faithful he is to answer us and save us from our own miserable circumstances.

So in response to this new thought process I have decided to write a poem.

Lord your hand seems to have left me

moved from my life

as I stumble to walk

to crawl

to hold my head up

Deliver me, O Lord, from my own confusion,

your authority and knowledge

be my guide,

my desire

to be lead by your insight

your wisdom

to see this world through your eyes

The agony of those in torment around the world

those that are weeping

struggling to survive

if they could see

see your glory

your undeserved presence

your extension of grace to unworthy vessels

O Lord, let your hand lead me

as you move back and forth around this world

where ever your spirit may call,

I desire to be found faithful,

ready to serve.