Adventures – Page 8

The Ultimate Romance

Tuesday night, after dinner, I was spending some alone time with Jesus. I love sitting by the lake and gazing into God´s beauty. As I was sitting there for a while, I was just soaking in God´s presence. Soaking in His perfect love. I could feel Him romancing me. When I imagine my life without His perfect love it makes me upset. It would be so painful to live without His perfect love. The perfect love who comforts me in my sleep. The perfect love who pursues me every second. The perfect love who casts out my fear. The perfect love who calms my uneasiness. The perfect love who...

Sunsets

July 10, 2014
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Admissions

Sitting on a rock as the waves gently crash against the shore while watching the sun slowly dip towards the horizon is possibly my favorite thing ever. The wind blows my hair across my face and as I look up after shoving it behind my ear, the sky has changed. Every time I glance away and back again, it’s a new shade of color. It constantly changes from bright yellow, to deep yellow, to orange that makes it seem like the sky is on fire, then merges with pink and as the pink gets deeper it makes the surrounding clouds appear purple. Every time it changes, it gets even more beautiful. ...

My Top Ten Highlights

1. Jesus 2. Nicaraguan coffee at every meal 3. Living lakeside with horses roaming on the shores 4. Beautiful sunsets on the lake 5. Ice cold Coca Cola 6. A real toilet you can poop peacefully on 7. Fresh mangoes all day every day 8. Poop stories with the team 9. Rice & beans at every meal 10. Handwashing laundry in the lake

Looking Into The Mirror

June 28, 2014
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Reflections

Yesterday I looked into a mirror for the first time in one month. I have to be honest, I did not look too hard. I avoided my scraggly beard and moustache, ignored the burn marks on my lips from eating too tart mangos, and merely swept my gaze across my long, windblown hair. Instead I looked only into my own eyes, because they are one of the few parts of me that I actually like. God has been dropping some bombs on me lately, and now I am going to share them with you. He has been telling me to be vulnerable, but I did not know that vulnerability would mean God revealing things I never wanted...

Squawk Box

June 28, 2014
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Adventure

This week I was assigned the glamorous task of working in the chicken coop. Chicken coop duty seems like it would be a pretty straightforward, low-stress, low-exertion task–you simply have to feed and water the chickens three times a day–but it has the reputation of being dreadful. After I was assigned to this job, I quickly found out that it not only lives up to its reputation–it is about a million times worse than I expected. I wasn’t quite sure exactly what to expect, but I soon discovered that chickens are my least favorite creatures on the entire planet. They...

journey of fasting

June 21, 2014
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Admissions

I have had this longing to get closer to God and to build relationships with every member of my team, but no matter how hard I tried I felt my self close off. I didnt know what to do to keep my own emotional fears deep inside and not let them affect my relationships. These walls that I have spent years building and perfecting with my own strength to protect myself has been taken over by fear of ever getting close and vulnerable with anyone…even God. That was just it; it was my own strength and not Gods. It was then God showed me what I needed to do. I needed to fast; to allow my body...

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