finally! two years later...

this morning i woke up with the crazy idea to start a blog. i was inspired and (oddly enough) in an extremely motivated mood to begin one and actually keep it up... i went to blogspot and was surprised when it automatically brought me to the blog i already had. that's right. started one two years ago and forgot about it.

i can't promise that i'm gonna keep up with it or even have something terribly interesting to talk about, but i DO know that since updating people with my life is something i'm pretty much the worst at, i should try to be better at it... so if no one reads this ever it's okay, at least when people say "i never hear anything from you! you should start a blog!" i can say back "i have one!" . also, the Lord has been pretty much sledge hammering me in the face (if that's a vivid enough illustration) with alot of practical lessons lately... it's so weird to come to a place where you think you have a fairly good grasp on what may happen in, say, the next 5 to 10 years and then realize, NOPE. but obviously it's moments like that which open doors to be completely and totally dependent on Jesus... something you wish you would have been the whole time. but anyways, i guess i'm resurrecting this thing mostly for those on my newsletter who might like a more in depth, more frequent update on what i'm doing here in mallorca.... but also a little bit for me, as i know this particular season is a really interesting time in my life. would be cool to be able to look back and see what the Lord did.

this september marked three years for me in spain. crazy to think of how much has happened since then.... it really has been the case of if someone told me all of the stuff that would have happened from sept. 2007 until now, i probably would have either a). laughed or b). went home after my first semester. haha, jk. well, maybe a little bit serious.... but i'm so glad that i have stayed because honestly i can't express just how grateful i am to still be here, now on staff serving alongside people who i have come to know not just as fellow workers or co-laborers but as friends and look up to so much... i remember my first semester as an intern and just thinking "man, even if the Lord sends me to the jungles in the amazon or the bush in africa one day, i will always be able to look back at this time as such a blessing.... living and working with people who i love so much and respect and look up to. God is so good". although alot has happened since then and the last year has probably been the most difficult one since i've arrived, i can honestly say i still mean that statement i made back then- i have been so incredibly blessed to be here and have learned so much.... and the great thing is the learning process is never over... so we'll see what the next 6 months or so have in store :)

so, if you're reading this, good luck.... haha. no but seriously, if you actually do care enough to wonder how i'm doing, thanks! will try and be good about this whole blogging thing. definitely isn't naturally something i gravitate towards.... but we'll see. by the way, the picture above is palma, mallorca. if you ever wanted to come to visit spain, i really like visitors :)

"for i am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

-romans 8: 38 & 39