Growing and Learning

So... yes...I know it has been a long time since I've posted anything. But life has been eventful to say the least in the last several months. God has taught me a bunch, He stretched me beyond belief, He took me places I never thought imaginable, and He was there with me the whole time. The summer was definitely a big time of learning, I'm still not quite sure what the purpose behind it was besides to trust my parents and real friends on what they believe is right. I had a summer fling to be honest, and I'm very grateful that it ended the way that it did, and I am VERY grateful that it ended in general. I really discovered what I want in a guy and he was most definitely not what I wanted. Girls...if you think that you can change a guy's religious views just by talking to them and begging them to go to your church, believe me, it don't work. Anyhoos...it ended nicely because we both just stopped talking to each other, very much a summer fling. Oh, before the summer, at the end of maymester I got my associates!! Yay me!! And then comes Kenya, wow, where to even begin. Kenya was life changing. I saw things I never would've imagined in the slums, and then the joy of children over something like an ice cream. Things we take for granted are some of the things that some of those kids will taste for the first and maybe only one time. God brought to me new understanding in life, He gave me a new perspective. I now know what I want to do with my life, I want to work in international adoption or overseas maybe at Naomi's Village, maybe not, I'm not quite sure. But I'm studying social work, and I might minor in agriculture, I think I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. But in the first two weeks of being in Kenya God gave me so much clarity. It's amazing how you can experience God when it is just you and Him, no TV, no internet, and no other white people to really get to talk to. But I tell you, those first two weeks were very crucial to my stay there. I wouldn't be where I am today with those days, I wouldn't have connected with the staff or the kids without being the only white person there. Two weeks in I got some amazing Villagemates, Katie, Ricky, and Hillary. They had been working in Nairobi in the slums and they had decided that that is not what they were supposed to be doing and they came and stayed at Naomi's, and they couldn't have come at a better time. God blessed me so much through them, just to have other Americans with me was so nice. Y'all...we serve an AWESOME God. There is no one who can compare to Him, His grace is abounding. There's a line in the song Oceans by Hillsong that says "You never fail and You won't start now". Isn't that just amazing? He never fails, and He never will. He is such an AWESOME God!! Well, I'm not sure what else to say right now, I'll probably think of something later on, but I think that's it for now. God has shown me a little glimpse of why I live the life that I live for Him and it is an awesome sight and I can't wait to serve Him wherever He wants me to be. :)