Currently I am am in the upstairs portion of the LiNK office in Torrance, Ca.It is now the second to last day of being here. I have been finishing up some work that needs to be done before my official internship is over. I had my exit interview a few days ago and I have been soaking everything in. It feels like that I have hit a strange wall in my life. I personally had no idea what an emotional pull this would be to coming back to reality.
Personally, the most difficult thing about this is going from doing something so effective and life changing, to going back to just making money. I really don't know if it is something that I can explain with words without having gone through it. At this point I am curious to see where the Lord is going to be leading my life. If there is one thing that I can point out from tour that I have learned is His obedience.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Ya'll
It never fails that I wait an extended period of time before writing my next blog.
I am going to make this as simple as possible.
God: God is good! He never fails and is perfect. His timing the past few months have been incredible. I am continuously growing and being more deeply rooted in the Lord that I serve, more than ever! My Aunt gave me a booked called FOLLOWING GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART by Elizabeth George before leaving for tour. Somehow I had left it behind in my car this whole time and cane across it last night. The book is about Elizabeth and how her journey with God revolutionized her life. It touches on the points of
-Growing in Joy and Contentment
-Growing in Devotion and Obedience
-Growing in confidence
-Growing in courage
-Growing in Humility
It is as it were to be that I had left the book behind and came home to it. Everything that it touches are things that I experienced during tour with my relationship with God. Spending a lot of time in a setting where you are around people but feel so alone I begun to learn a lot about myself. This is such a stretching time in my life and I am looking forward to seeing where the Lord is going to be leading me these next few months and even years!
Home: Its as almost as if it was a shock to be home. Being in a unfamiliar city or even state on a daily basis got to be something that I really got use to. I got to know my friends as voices over the phone instead of physically interacting with them. Coming back and seeing people was surreal because of the fact that they were a voice on the phone for so long. I have been able to grown some friendships through this, which I have really enjoyed.
Summer Plans: Working at Mimis, quitting Mimis haha, volunteering with LiNK, Disnetyland ☺, possibly a trip to Montana, houseboats, moving in with Megan and Shannon, taking an extended weekend to go to Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver. You can’t forget them summer late nights and fun in the sun!
LiNK; I will support this cause as long as the Lord leads me to. I have been blessed to hang out with, and work with, a NK refugee. Having Shin here with us in Torrance has put such a encouraging light to the work that we at LiNK have been doing the past few months and many of those people, years.
I would love to being praying for you my friends so if there is anything please let me know. If you all could be praying for my strength and my relationship with my mother ,that would be greatly appreciated.
“ God’s will…renews your mind, gives you meaning to life, is unique to you, requires patience, calls for obedience. “
I am going to make this as simple as possible.
God: God is good! He never fails and is perfect. His timing the past few months have been incredible. I am continuously growing and being more deeply rooted in the Lord that I serve, more than ever! My Aunt gave me a booked called FOLLOWING GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART by Elizabeth George before leaving for tour. Somehow I had left it behind in my car this whole time and cane across it last night. The book is about Elizabeth and how her journey with God revolutionized her life. It touches on the points of
-Growing in Joy and Contentment
-Growing in Devotion and Obedience
-Growing in confidence
-Growing in courage
-Growing in Humility
It is as it were to be that I had left the book behind and came home to it. Everything that it touches are things that I experienced during tour with my relationship with God. Spending a lot of time in a setting where you are around people but feel so alone I begun to learn a lot about myself. This is such a stretching time in my life and I am looking forward to seeing where the Lord is going to be leading me these next few months and even years!
Home: Its as almost as if it was a shock to be home. Being in a unfamiliar city or even state on a daily basis got to be something that I really got use to. I got to know my friends as voices over the phone instead of physically interacting with them. Coming back and seeing people was surreal because of the fact that they were a voice on the phone for so long. I have been able to grown some friendships through this, which I have really enjoyed.
Summer Plans: Working at Mimis, quitting Mimis haha, volunteering with LiNK, Disnetyland ☺, possibly a trip to Montana, houseboats, moving in with Megan and Shannon, taking an extended weekend to go to Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver. You can’t forget them summer late nights and fun in the sun!
LiNK; I will support this cause as long as the Lord leads me to. I have been blessed to hang out with, and work with, a NK refugee. Having Shin here with us in Torrance has put such a encouraging light to the work that we at LiNK have been doing the past few months and many of those people, years.
I would love to being praying for you my friends so if there is anything please let me know. If you all could be praying for my strength and my relationship with my mother ,that would be greatly appreciated.
“ God’s will…renews your mind, gives you meaning to life, is unique to you, requires patience, calls for obedience. “
Saturday, May 9, 2009
So far so good.
The past few days I have been able to enjoy some good conversations with close friends of mine. It is truly comforting to be able to know that there are family and friends who care for me so deeply.
Oh good ol’ Louisiana….
What I have seen of this state I have really enjoyed. Despite the humidity here it seems like a wonderful place to live. For one, the scenery is absolutely stunning. I personally love driving down the neighborhood streets where the tree branches are covering atop from one end of the street to the other. Nature in general is absolutely incredible, and is something I have grown to appreciate more and more these past eight weeks.
The people that we have met here have been nothing but hospitable to us. Giving us their beds to sleep in, feeding us breakfast, taking us out to eat for some true southern food, and simply spending time with us giving us tours of the cities.
Today we had a screening down in New Orleans. My team and I decided that it would be cool to go down to Bourbon street earlier in the day and walk around. It was filled with countless amounts of souvenir shops and restraints where you could get your New Orleans gumbo, crawfish, and jambalaya. The architecture of the buildings were so different from other places that I have been before. I was very surprised to see how little the French Quarter was affected by Katrina. It looked as though Mother Nature didn’t get a hold of them.
Fun event for the day: It is a must that when you go to New Orleans you must go to the beignet café and order some beignet and coffee. Beignet at French doughnuts that are topped with powdered sugar. It is not a must that you eat all the sugar that is on the plate however. Once we were done eating the beignet my teammate says “hey ill give you five dollars if you eat all that sugar” I had told him “no way”. He progressively increased the amount of money that he was going to give me. Once he got to fifteen I thought to myself, mm…I bet I can get him to give me twenty bucks. So I ate approximately six tablespoons of powdered sugar and boy did I feel sick!
Note to self: Don’t ever do that again unless it is for $50.00 haha.
This concludes my New Orleans experience for now I hope you are all doing well and I miss you all very much. I am looking forward to seeing my friends and family back home.
Oh good ol’ Louisiana….
What I have seen of this state I have really enjoyed. Despite the humidity here it seems like a wonderful place to live. For one, the scenery is absolutely stunning. I personally love driving down the neighborhood streets where the tree branches are covering atop from one end of the street to the other. Nature in general is absolutely incredible, and is something I have grown to appreciate more and more these past eight weeks.
The people that we have met here have been nothing but hospitable to us. Giving us their beds to sleep in, feeding us breakfast, taking us out to eat for some true southern food, and simply spending time with us giving us tours of the cities.
Today we had a screening down in New Orleans. My team and I decided that it would be cool to go down to Bourbon street earlier in the day and walk around. It was filled with countless amounts of souvenir shops and restraints where you could get your New Orleans gumbo, crawfish, and jambalaya. The architecture of the buildings were so different from other places that I have been before. I was very surprised to see how little the French Quarter was affected by Katrina. It looked as though Mother Nature didn’t get a hold of them.
Fun event for the day: It is a must that when you go to New Orleans you must go to the beignet café and order some beignet and coffee. Beignet at French doughnuts that are topped with powdered sugar. It is not a must that you eat all the sugar that is on the plate however. Once we were done eating the beignet my teammate says “hey ill give you five dollars if you eat all that sugar” I had told him “no way”. He progressively increased the amount of money that he was going to give me. Once he got to fifteen I thought to myself, mm…I bet I can get him to give me twenty bucks. So I ate approximately six tablespoons of powdered sugar and boy did I feel sick!
Note to self: Don’t ever do that again unless it is for $50.00 haha.
This concludes my New Orleans experience for now I hope you are all doing well and I miss you all very much. I am looking forward to seeing my friends and family back home.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Fortunate
I can't believe how fast the time is approaching that I will be back in California. We have our last screening here in Louisiana on Sunday at 3:00 p.m. which means we will hit the road around 6:00 p.m. Our expected arrival time will be sometime between 11:00 p.m. and 3:00 am on the 12th depending on how many pits stop we make. I am so excited to see the faces of my friends on that day :). Well I am kinda hoping that my team has that day off because of the travels and what not.
I am truly blessed to be able to have a job waiting for me when I get back. However there is an unsettling feeling about going back to Mimi's Cafe. Maybe it is because I have this fear that I will be trapped there for the rest of my life haha. A short term goal will be to have a new job in my field at the end of summer. The plan for now is to catch up on my bills over the coarse of the next few months and to move back out of my moms house.
For the past few days I have heavily been thinking about my career and what I would like to do with that. My heart desires to use my talents in ways that could help people that are less fortunate. Such as helping out at orphanages, old peoples homes, or just people that don't have money to spend on getting their hair done. First I must further my education in that so that I am able to do these things along with having an actual job that pays.
The thought of opening a fair trade coffee shop or a ice cream parlor down the road has crossed my mind as well. It just seems like my brain is running wild with thoughts of the future. I know that God has a perfect plan and will lead me where He wants me to be. Its just so crazy to see where my life has gone since high school and where it will be going in the future. I am so excited about life and what it entails.
I am truly blessed to be able to have a job waiting for me when I get back. However there is an unsettling feeling about going back to Mimi's Cafe. Maybe it is because I have this fear that I will be trapped there for the rest of my life haha. A short term goal will be to have a new job in my field at the end of summer. The plan for now is to catch up on my bills over the coarse of the next few months and to move back out of my moms house.
For the past few days I have heavily been thinking about my career and what I would like to do with that. My heart desires to use my talents in ways that could help people that are less fortunate. Such as helping out at orphanages, old peoples homes, or just people that don't have money to spend on getting their hair done. First I must further my education in that so that I am able to do these things along with having an actual job that pays.
The thought of opening a fair trade coffee shop or a ice cream parlor down the road has crossed my mind as well. It just seems like my brain is running wild with thoughts of the future. I know that God has a perfect plan and will lead me where He wants me to be. Its just so crazy to see where my life has gone since high school and where it will be going in the future. I am so excited about life and what it entails.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Every good story ends how it starts.
Since returning to Memphis we were able to meet up with our first contacts Andrew and Katherine for a few laughs. We got to enjoy some tempura ice cream again, tried some tempura cheesecake, experienced downtown Memphis, then went to Kooky Canucks for lunch and had an incredible dessert. This dessert is called the Avalanche, a whopping 18 scoops of vanilla ice cream with a plethora of toppings. For sure this was the biggest ice cream challenge I have encountered and was thoroughly impressed by how much Julie was able to inhale.
It is officially one week from today we will be on the road back to Ca. As I lay here in Memphis, in the lovely home of the Lawrances, I am able to reflect on the last two months. The southeast nomads got to spread to news about North Korea eight states throughout the south. We met some incredible people along the way, had countless amounts of laughs, and personally learned so much about myself. Throughout the past two months of tour I have been challenged in multiple ways and within all this, I have learned to rely on the Lord more than ever. I really been able to come to grasp to what it means to Trust in the Lord and He will make your paths straight. There is something about not being in your “daily” environment that makes you stretch and really learn who you are. I have grown and been stretched in ways I was not aware of. Being away from my family, sisters, and brothers back home has made me so thankful for the people in my life. If there is one thing in life that truly gives me joy it is the relationships that I have with the people present in my life.
It is officially one week from today we will be on the road back to Ca. As I lay here in Memphis, in the lovely home of the Lawrances, I am able to reflect on the last two months. The southeast nomads got to spread to news about North Korea eight states throughout the south. We met some incredible people along the way, had countless amounts of laughs, and personally learned so much about myself. Throughout the past two months of tour I have been challenged in multiple ways and within all this, I have learned to rely on the Lord more than ever. I really been able to come to grasp to what it means to Trust in the Lord and He will make your paths straight. There is something about not being in your “daily” environment that makes you stretch and really learn who you are. I have grown and been stretched in ways I was not aware of. Being away from my family, sisters, and brothers back home has made me so thankful for the people in my life. If there is one thing in life that truly gives me joy it is the relationships that I have with the people present in my life.
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