just a few notes on this week...

- The knowledge and wisdom and love of God and God himself is infinite. We may only know 1% of all who God is. But 1% of infinite is still infinite.

-Theres nothing you can do to make God love you anymore then He already does.

-it's a daily process moving from one side of the road to the other.
-Allow God to define yur story. Your mistakes and the things that happen in your life don't define your story.

- Your not gonna get anything out of this DTS but what you want out of it.
-DTS doesn't change anybodys life, God does. Discipleship is applied outside of the classroom. It's about living out the information, not just keeping it as head knowledge.

- Grief is porportional to intamacy. Nothing hurts more then being hurt by someone your actually intimate with. God is hurt so much when we reject Him. His love is so great but so is His sadness.

Outreach..

I AM GOING TO THAILAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
just puttin that out there :]

convicted

One thing Mekeisha told us this week was this-
There was a lady she knew who had a vision during a prayer time of a little girl who was huddled in a corner crying and Jesus was standing beside her with His arms around her yelling "can I get some help over here?!?"- God is always always first on the scene trying to help and comfort those in need. But he does call for back up. WE are his back up. God has put us in charge to help those in need and to be His body here on earth. We are the body of Christ, so why are we ignoring the tragedies of the world? We are constantly stuck in the monotony of our usually complacent lives. When will we wake up and respond to God's call? He has called us to SO much more then what we're doing. And we are ALL called. If you don't believe that..READ your Bible. We are all called. We say we are giving Him our lives but how much are we really giving??? We need to be willing to respond to His call and do His will. Not out of obligation, but out of love. -"Can I get some help over here?!?!?" - respond!!! There is a great big world out there who NEEDS the body of Christ to respond! They need help and WE are the tools, WE are the anwser to God's call. Don't ignore it.

Today....

I'm ecstatic!!!
and my thoughts are UNCONTROLLABLY sporadic!
Yet centered around one center... JOY. =]
In plush ripe tones joy is rushing through my bones!!!
If joy were a color it would be purple pastel pretty
Like old women and young childrem where on easter.
Smiling while having deviled eggs and drinking kool-aid
chasing blown bubbles in the background in the backyard
the young ones' distracting hats fly off...
And the old ones laugh a contagious laughter
that is to be shared my everyone there.
The suns shines down upon them as all of their physical
imperfections gleam beautifully

and inside
INSIDE i feel like this!
and i look out my window and imagine the
future pirple pastel pretty moments of joy
that i will one day have with my wife.
my children. my friends. my family.

I REALLY look forward to hose moments
but i am thankful for the one that i am
having right now.
This morning.
alone.
on my couch.
OVERwhelmed by joy.

=]
thats a poem by sir BRADLEY Hathaway.
ahhhhhhhh.
one hour till i find out the out reach locations!!!

Class Picture! Mixed with our WDTS staff (you can see a bigger version if you click on it)

A few pictures

Breakfast time

Dorm room dancin with Hali and Danika lol

Me- Cara- Hali- Jessica

fyi Adrian is a hollywood stunt double. true fact.

(guy holding the fish)

My Table at the Welcome Dinner Hali and I =]

I'm writing you a symphony of sound

So my first week of DTS was incredibly AMAZING. =] Instead of going in to detail about everything that happened, I'm just going to post some of the points and topics from the lectures in class this week. God is so beyond amazing. I'm still in awe that he brought me here. It's so perfect for me :D. ok heres some of those points of interest :
-It's time to let go of everything you know.
-We won't experiance more of the fullness of God till we realize we hardly know anything about Him.
- God loves me for me.
- It's not the bucket you carry or what gifts you bring, it's wanting to be a blessing that matters.
- He can't direct a ship thats not moving.
- We have to take a risk, erroring trying to please Him is often times better then sitting around and doing nothing.
- It's who you will love while your alive that matters, serving Him with your all that matters, giving your entire life to God and loving him to the fullest extent of your love that matters, not where you will go when you die.
- When we pray for something, we have to be willing to be the anwser to that prayer or we're basically just being a hypocrite.
- Life is all about connecting with God's heart.
- All the change you want to see in ourself is going to come out of loving God.
- You can't serve God or love God half heartedly. You have to give Him 110%. It's what he deserves, any less then that is ripping him off.
Another thing Mikeisha focused on was how much God desires obedience when he speaks to us. Obedience in our relationship with Him is an ABSOLUTE must. She talked ALOT about obedience and how it should spring out of love. Because God doesn't want to be appeased. He wants to have a love relationship with you and he knows whats best for you.
- She also painted this really convicting picture for us. That imagine when we get to heaven, we get a price tag. Jesus already gave us His price tag, by saying he loves us enough to give up EVERYTHING he had, his all, His very life. So when we get to heaven, whats our price tag for God gonna say? It should say priceless. But whats it gonna say he was worth to you??? "2% of my time" spent praying before i fall asleep at night??? "Worth sunday mornings and saturday nights", "Worth 30 minutes of devotion time every other day"????? What would your price tag for the all powerful, everlasting, loving creating of the universe say????????

what a fun day

we did part of the ropes course today! I was worried it was gonna suck but it was actually really fun!!! We all had to work together as teams and do alot of serving and helping others. I was really impressed by our group, but then again thats how we christians should always be. We all served one another and it was really cool. Its amazing how I already see God transforming my heart. Like in serving others and doing acts of service and stuff, I've always been really lazy when it comes to doing work and stuff but now I feel like I'm really doing it out of love and having fun rather then being a grumply brat. haha. anyways the street evanglism thing was kinda cool but pretty uneventful. We have a amazing speaker for the week leading class time. Not sure how to spell it but her name is Mikeasha. She is a truely amazing woman of God and I am REALLY excited to learn from her for the rest of this week and next week. Things are goin excellant as usual. I;m seriously having the time of my life! I hope ya'll back home are doing well! I love all you family people and my church family and friends! I love it here =]Hope things in Washington are good!!!

alright

just so you guys know, I'm going to start posting blogs only once a week unless something major happens or I get extra free time. But my schdule is really busy (in a good way). And I need to put 100% of my focus on God and this program rather then blogging every single day. But just so you know I am having an absolute BLAST!!!!!! We got assigned our "acts of service" today. Which is kind of like chores. and im assigned breakfast duty1 (which is SUPER easy, just early)
But I'm having the time of my life and i LOVE LOVE LOVE it here =] tonight were going to town to do street evanglism so that should be intersesting!its just passing out papers and tracks. YWAM doesnt do that street "preaching" stuff haha. so I guess we'll see how that goes!!!!! lol

orientation day

well day was the first day in class and I REALLY liked it. After everything they said in class I am just so crazy excited now! More than ever! The staff here are really incredible people. Their genuine love and sincerity in caring for us and discipling us amazes me. I mean, they pay to work here lol. They are totally volunteers called by God, and thats just so cool to me. I could absolutely see myself staying in YWAM, but we will see where God calls me. lol. The directors of my DTS, Troy and Amos are really cool guys too. And the schdule is awesome. They seriously have us busy almost every hour of the day!! But I think thats a pretty good thing =] and weekends we pretty much have off except on some saturdays we will go and do serivce projects liek feeding the homeless and stuff. Theres an opportunity to street evanglism friday night. ahaha. I'm maybe considering it. lol .Just because it's something I've never done and I wanna continue to stretch myself all the time. Anyways, I am still having a blast. I love it here. It just keeps getting better everyday =]

The 2nd day

hmmm. I really love this place. I love the campus, the dorms, and people. =] I really am happy and content. I was just overcome with purpose last night. I felt God's blessed reassurance that this is exactly where I am supposed to be. Smack dab in the center of his will. And theres seriously no where better then that. I am having SUCH a blast! We road the zip line tonight. It was so insanely fun! You climb up like 50 feet in a tree and just jump off into thin air! With a harness on of course. But it was an amazing start to the school. I felt like I conquered any insecurities or fears of the unknown. It was awesome. Seriously. I'm excited for tomorrow, first day of classes! Dont exactly know what to expect. Bbut I'm stoked!!! yayy for having fun and only being slightly homesick! I was afraid I would like be crying every night but I've already made so many friends and I'm having a blast =]

Day One

So today was my first official day moving into YWAM Salem.
I share a room with 2 other girls...which might end up only being 1 other girl. But she
hasn't even arrived yet. Then the 3 of us share one bathroom with 3 girls across the hall. (crazzzzy..right?) So hopefully all will go well with that! haha
But tonight I'm all alone in my room. The roomies havn't arrived yet =[ I have been enjoying myself though. Just trying to settle in. I have already begun to feel a but homesick...but then I think about how incredible this truely is and I feel better.
Plus the campus is awesome, the staff are so nice! Really kind, loving, genuine people.
It turns out there is also a 2nd DTS going on right now, a Korean DTS. So we have students from Korea dorming with us to. It's pretty cool.
Honestly I'm not super motivated to blog right now sense I've been journaling all day. haha
But YWAM Salem really is a wonderful place. And I'm excited to see how the next week will unfold!
loveLOVElove- Double K

Last day

I'm leaving Washington!!!!!! This is CRAZYYYYYY!!!!
I will of course post more later.
Alot more.
ahaha