"Truely letting Him make all things new"

Hello hello hello everyone!
It has been a really long time sense I've blogged.
But once again God has turned a new page and I'm in a new season
of life. it's time to start blogging again! My plan is to blog once a week, and than once a month I will send out a "newsletter" to those of you who signed up for the mailing list.

ANYWAYS.....life is going really good=]
It's good being back in Salem. Although this time around is totally and completely different from the past few times.
Right now I'm mostly just working in the "Pro Rev" office everyday. during the first part of the day I usually do stuff for them. Like this week I did a few really cool things. On thursday my fellow intern Charity and I led base intercession for Thailand/Burma/Tibet. It went really well!!! Then today we set up a Thailand themed snack break for the DTS. Anyways, thats what the first part of most days will involve is doing various things like that. Then in the afternoons Charity and I have a specfic area of study everyday for the country we will be going to longterm. So one day we will focus on country history, another day will be country religion, another will be an introduction to language learning, or support raising, etc. So far we are having an excellant time. I am learning ALOT. A whole lot about my country and a whole lot about the Western Christian worldview and how it effects other cultures as our worldviews collide, and what it means to have the a biblical worldview rather than a "western christan worldview". So far the internship has been really beneficial and it's only been a week!

It's also been really fun being on staff now. I share a really nice house with 3 other girls and a really awesome master bedroom with one of my bestfriends, Caiti. We have really been having a blast so far. It's also exciting to be out of the "dorm scene". I definitely feel more "grown up" and independent now. So thats pretty exciting as well.

But above all of this, Jesus keeps bringing to mind that it is all just sprinkles. When I was in the hospital in Bangkok, as I mentioned in my last blog, God kept impressing his terrific worth on my heart. That He wanted, and I really wanted to come to the place where I could honestly say that Jesus is more than enough for me. Where I count EVERYTHING as a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of KNOWING Him. Where everything is just rubbish. I felt like I truely came to that point when I was there. I've never felt more close to God than I did when I was going in for surgery. And now, being here in comfortable America, it's honestly not as easy. It is truely become a daily sacrifice of praise to count everything as rubbish, to give him my everything, especially my wants, desires, expectations, and dreams. But the more I struggle to give things up and live my life with open hands and an open heart, the more I realize that he is infinitely worthy all the time, not matter what. He is SO abundently good all the time. He really is all I need. He is the cake, the substance of my life, and for Him to be "more than enough" I decided that means he would have to be the frosting as well. Jesus is the frosting AND the cake. And everything else is just extra sprinkles on top.....like I said, it's a daily struggle and a sacrifice to let go of myself and come to this point everyday. Many times I fail. But thats where I am right now, and I know God will be faithful to draw me closer to himself . As I pursue Him, He is already pursuing me. Hallelujah. <3