Only one more week!!!!


I surprisingly get to go to the Passionate Pursuit Conference as well, in Atlanta :D

I just can't wait

I am going on a missions trip to Romania, and I just can't wait. I will be working with a camp there that is associated with BHOP and IHOP-AC. I am so excited that I have constantly been looking up information about the country and it's history. I am amazed at what these people have been through.

This guy named, Nicolae Ceausescu, became president of Romania and made it a Communist country. He kind of reminds me of Nero a little bit because in 1974 he started this "systematisation" process and basically that was completely destroying Romania so he can rebuild it all in his own style. Thankfully, he was overthrown like twenty years ago. Communism has left it's mark on alot of the older generation though.

They have real gypsies there. Alot of them travel in wagons going from town to town stealing things from the flats or apartments. Some of them adopt land that was left abandoned due to lack of expenses, until they are taken off by the government. Some of them will trick you right beneath your nose. All the people I ask about gypsies too say they are easily identifiable. That You will know a gypsy when you see one. Here is a picture I found online. I can't wait to take my own :D

I still have alot to learn about Romania. It's too bad I can't speak the language. I will be over there for twenty days so hopefully I will pick up on a few words. I can't wait!!!!

I will be thankful

It's been awhile since I wrote on here...sorry folks!

I went back to Georgia for a wedding and some graduations this past week. I haven't felt that alone in so long. These people that I got to see are wonderful, I love them all so much. We had a pleasant reunion, but amidst all the "I miss you!'s" and "how have you been?" "what have you been up to?'s" I still felt a loneliness. Not in the sense that I felt companionless, but in the sense that I now stand apart. I am not apart of what they are apart of anymore, and they don't agree with what I am standing up for. I stood in a room full of people that I once felt a kindredness with and felt lonely.

I know this move is where the Lord wants me. I know that my loneliness will only serve to make me rely more on Him and His love. So I am truly thankful. As I see my friends graduating and getting ready for the next step, as I see my friends getting married and having babies I will be grateful for where the Lord has me. I know my calling isn't normal. I know I stand alone. but it is in this solitude that the Lord has made His presence known, so I will be thankful.

I have chosen to be apart of the prayer movement here in North Carolina. I am slowly and sometimes painfully being transformed. Nothing compares to one day in the presence of the Lord. I choose to give it all up for the sake of knowing Him in a greater way. He is worth it. In Him I have found my rest, my song, my hiding place. I will be thankful as the Lord sets me apart. He is Holy, and so I desire to be Holy!