After seeing endless shacks, depravity, pain, struggle for survival, I don’t know how to deal with the privilege I have.  There is something in my bones that says, “I don’t want it”: my upbringing, my opportunity, the generous gifts I have received during my lifetime.  What makes it fair? They bathe in the streets while I access an endless supply of heated water. Maybe they are the ones who truly know how to depend on God. And as I waste even the slightest bit or am not generous with what I have been GIVEN, not even "earned", maybe they are...

After seeing endless shacks, depravity, pain, struggle for survival, I don’t know how to deal with the privilege I have.  There is something in my bones that says, “I don’t want it”: my upbringing, my opportunity, the generous gifts I have received during my lifetime.  What makes it fair? They bathe in the streets while I access an endless supply of heated water. Maybe they are the ones who truly know how to depend on God. And as I waste even the slightest bit or am not generous with what I have been GIVEN, not even "earned", maybe they are...

      First of all, I would like to apologize for two things: One, I apologize that I haven't written a blog for 2 months.  Two, I apologize for the length of this blog, it is exhaustive but the good news is you don't have to read it if you don't want to.         Also, I would just like to say all the encouragement and support I have recieved from family and friends has been amazing!  God knows I need it and it comes at just the right times.  I am so thankful for each and every one of you.  I love you so much. ...

      First of all, I would like to apologize for two things: One, I apologize that I haven't written a blog for 2 months.  Two, I apologize for the length of this blog, it is exhaustive but the good news is you don't have to read it if you don't want to.         Also, I would just like to say all the encouragement and support I have recieved from family and friends has been amazing!  God knows I need it and it comes at just the right times.  I am so thankful for each and every one of you.  I love you so much. ...

Blink. Now blink again. That's how fast my time here in the Philippines has felt like, a flash a blink, of an eye. But even in the quickness of time being out on the mission field a little over 10 months, having gone through East Africa and now The Philippines,God has shown up, come alive and has moved in  ways I couldn't even describe.    Peoples hearts and lives have been forever changed not because of me, but by my Heavenly Father using me, in any way necessary!  Whether its playing with kids during the hottest part of the day just to pick them up so...

Blink. Now blink again. That's how fast my time here in the Philippines has felt like, a flash a blink, of an eye. But even in the quickness of time being out on the mission field a little over 10 months, having gone through East Africa and now The Philippines,God has shown up, come alive and has moved in  ways I couldn't even describe.    Peoples hearts and lives have been forever changed not because of me, but by my Heavenly Father using me, in any way necessary!  Whether its playing with kids during the hottest part of the day just to pick them up so...