The Past 3+ Months in a flash

I realize that I have not written here in months.  I promised people everywhere that I would, so I am finally making good on my promise.

I finished my time in the Philippines.  I finished the workbook on time, even though I went to camp.  Camp changed my life and the lives of the others.  It's too much to go into detail here, but just know that it was beyond good. :-)

I am back in America- Texas to be exact.  I am living at my parent's house in my old room.  I haven't lived here in over seven years.  Thankfully, my parents let me paint and remodel my room so it doesn't look like my old room anymore.  We are learning how to live together all over again.  So far, so good! :-)  My parents are the greatest!!!!

I have started my own business, Bridges to More, LLC.  It's a tutoring and teacher training company.  I am excited to see what God is going to do with this!  It's so scary to do this.  But God is the CEO of the business, so I don't have to worry about a thing!

I also have started graduate school at Dallas Baptist University.  I love my school! I will get 2 Masters of Education degrees: Educational Leadership and Reading & ESL Specialization.  Classes started this week.  :-)

It has been an adjustment coming home.  Numerous people in my family have and had life and death illnesses.  These battles for health are His.  They are too big for me to fight on my own.  Even as I type this, I am waiting on an update about my grandpa's surgery to remove a tumor in his lungs.

I have also adjusted to new expressions of friendship, worship, travel, shopping, and so much.  God has given me supernatural grace and joy to get through it all.  Shopping at Wal-Mart (the supermarket here) brought quite a few "freak out" moments at first!  Yesterday though, I was able to shop without hyperventilating.

I will always be grateful that I can flush toilet paper and drink tap water.  It is still weird to think that I can wash my coffee mug and use it while it is still wet without any worry of getting sick.  We live in such luxury here.

In the last three months, I have also gotten to travel here in the states.  I have been to Las Angeles, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Colorado, and various parts of Texas.  The Lord is a good provider!!

Life with Him is always and adventure.  Whether or not I understand Him or know the answers, I know that He is good.  I can trust Him.  I like to define adventure as "challenges and tough stuff turned into a joyful story."

I plan on updating again more frequently, so check back often.  If I haven't posted, please send me a message as a reminder!