Africa Update :)

Hello all!

Quick update on Africa. I have been corresponding with Stephanie (my assignment coordinator) and we have found an assignment that looks great! She has contacted the field and is corresponding with them to see if I would be a good fit for them. I would so appreciate your prayers that if this is the God's plan He would help everything go smoothly. Also would appreciate prayers for peace and patience for me!

Okay...and now confession time, I really really struggle with follow through. I have a very strong tendency to start out extremely gung-ho about things and then fizzle out like a can of flat pop. You may have noticed this in the writing of this blog. I know I have been pretty skimpy on posting the last two months, and I can't promise it is going to get a ton better any time soon. However this is something that I really want to grow in, as it effects many areas of my life. And since change rarely (never) occurs without effort I am going to endeavor to, with hard work...a lot of prayer...and the grace of God, start to make that change. One tangible way is going to be with this blog. It is my intention to submit a post at least once a week. Now it is possible that this will subject you (the reader) to some less than stellar writing but I hope you will forbear.

Along with this I plan to commit to memory a verse of scripture each week which I will include at the end of my weekly post. In John Piper's message last week he spoke with such passion of the importance of immersing yourself in the Word of God. And the joy his time in the Scriptures has brought him is gloriously evident. I want that to be true of me. I want to make spending time in God's word my number one priority every day. As I fall asleep at night I want the truth found in God's word streaming though my mind...not the plot of last nights episode of Leverage.

~I think that will be all for tonight

"The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up. You have to cut every step with an ice axe. Only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress. If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still." Charles Spurgeon