I took this in the middle of writing the post

I took this in the middle of writing the post

I still cannot believe that I get to call what I do work! It has been another good week full of learning, adventure, and laughter. This week went by so fast I am having a hard time knowing where to start. We closed up our summer semester and have a one week break between summer and fall. During this break the kids will go into the community and do work projects while the teachers prepare for the next semester. I am so glad God brought me out here when He did; I was able to get the hang of things before having a full semester! What was my favorite part of this semester you ask? Well I will tell you. Doing devotions with the kids! Every morning I got to talk about whatever God put on my heart for the girls in my class. We went through the book of Romans and it blew my socks off! Just reading through it was intense and then interacting with the girls was out of control. My favorite days were when we covered chapters 6, 7 where Paul is at the end of himself, he is at the point where he is looking in the mirror and says I can’t stand what is looking back at me! It is the passage that kind of says I know what I should do yet I do what I don’t want to do… and he is at that point where he is fed up with the power sin has over him. We all took time to write down that sin that is weighing us down that we can’t get away from and saved it for the next day where we got to talk about Ch 8 that reminds us that there is NO condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus! And we talked about the victory we have because of what He has done! On this same day we talked about shame and to define it easily, it is a lie we believe about ourselves that we beat ourselves up with. I am not pretty enough, smart enough, good enough, I will never be…whatever the lie is! This day the girls totally clicked with me! What breaks my heart is every time I see them in their brokenness I want to ask them what lies they believed that got them where they are. On the last day we were finishing the book and I asked them what they thought and one girl responded ‘they should teach this book in churches, if more Christians understood this the world would be so different’. It was crazy so many times we would read one mind blowing verse and have to pause and go “whoa can you imagine if we lived just this one verse, what life would be like?” it was so good. I really do love what I do, I have had my hard moments but they are shy in comparison to the good.

Ok I feel like I should tell you guys a funny story. So recently I have been into reading Ted Dekker books. He is an amazing writer who writes intellectually intense books about CSI kind of stuff and keeps you guessing right up to the end on what really went down. Sorry that was a little confusing… anyway so I am reading one of his books the other night (Skin) and I get to the point of the story where the murderer in the story is describing how he kills two random people I get to the intense part of the description not really breathing because I am worried about what is going to happen next and the power goes out. We are talking like I had to have my hands out to find the table my flashlight is on kind of dark all the while going, oh I hope a killer is not in my apartment. I laughed at myself afterward but was scared out of my mind during.

I am really excited for this week and not really sure what it holds since it is different from all the others but we will see! Everyday is an adventure that is all I know!