Journey of a Thousand Miles

I feel I owe it to my one or two readers of what’s going on in my crazy life right now. Just recently I found out I am once again out of a job. It’s all good though- I actually prayed for this to happen.   Maybe not in that particular fashion, but I’ve been needing a change in my environment lately, especially in my job. I truly didn’t want to work full-time anymore, and I was begging for a chance to go home and rest and be able to write and work on my other ventures without the distraction of a “job.” And since I wasn’t brave enough to quit myself, God took it upon Himself to release me and give me a nice severance check that would hold me over until I applied for unemployment. How nice of Him.   So here I find myself at home with my parents, eating their food, and using their internet. It was hard to get used to the slower pace of life at first, and I miss my friends in Austin, but I’m quickly getting used to it. I’ve taken up gardening! Pulling weeds and working with the earth

There are days like today when I feel distressed with all the suffering that goes on in the world. Why am I drawn to read about these things? I feel it's good to know what is really going on in this world. It's good to know where God's light needs to shine. I am tempted to be angry at God for allowing the suffering to happen. I was reading Redeeming Love on my lunch break today and literally started crying in the coffee shop- bawling my eyes out- because although it is a fiction book, I know there is sexual abuse going on in the world today, some of it even worse than what I was reading about. Sometimes it's hard to believe that a loving God would allow that, but I know about God's sovereignty and how He uses our suffering to bring us closer to Him. You are the Wise One, Lord, not me. I am also getting involved with Redeemed Ministries, which was founded in Houston and is launching another chapter in Austin. They work to stop human sex trafficking, and I did

I was going to write a post about my mission trip, but I am still processing that on my own. In the mean time, I will continue where I left off on Donald Miller's Storyline Exercises.  In Exercise 3, we are to list our role models and their characteristics we would like to cultivate within ourselves. These character models can be pioneers in our industry, parents, grandparents or fictional heroes from stories. They can be living or dead, friends or complete strangers.  I had a bit of fun with this exercise and got to know myself and my inner goals just by picking out my role models. Here they are: 1. Nick Vujicic The effect his story had on the world: Nick is the founder of Life Without Limbs , an organization whose mission is to "cross boundaries and break down barriers, to build bridges that bring people to the love and hope found in Jesus Christ."  Nick has gone all over the world, even to the prisons of Columbia, to declare the gospel of Christ and the hope tha