Tour: Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado

Man, not alot but a whole lot has happened the past few days. Fell asleep in Wisconson and woke up in Iowa one morning... Oh, what was really great was that we sleep in a Walmart parking lot, which is great for 2 reasons: 1, I have a growing love for Walmart and 2, "I slept in parking lots, I don't mind, I don't mind". Stopped in at this church and talked to their pastor... he was nice. It was Clarks friend Ellen (who's really nice) home church. After that we had a great dinner and Ellen's parents house. (She skyped, it was cute). A wall in her room was a chalkboard, we all signed it :). The next day we were in Nebraska. We had devotionals with the whole band, discussed alot of different things, I love the body of Christ. There was a maybe contact at a fairly big church there, but we were having to wait too long to hear back from them so we decided to just have a nice lunch altogether. Though we were wondering if it was the right choice, we went to Cheesecake Factory. It was delicious (of course). At lunch Clark got a callback from the pastor. Because we stopped where we did we were still really close to the town he was in. God is SO faithful! The meeting was really great, he was a neat, passionate guy and tweeted that he really liked us. I'm typing all of this in a laundramat in Aurora Colorado. A few of us are kinda sick. Say a prayer.

God thank you for your faithfulness and steadfastness, especially when things seem to be going so fast. Keep us pure, keep us safe, keep us near your heart, use us.

 

Adam bought a tinkerbell guitar

Tour: WisCANson into MinnesOOta

Driving now on the Laura Ingles Wilder history highway. The boys are talking about what they remember from the books (which is alot more than I can remember.) The 2 shows in Wisconsin were really great, the people were so nice. They played a really sweet looking bigger venue the other night and last night played this little church about a half hour away. Such sweet people. I keep forgetting I'm in another state. Me and Holly talked about God this morning... I always want to freeze time and live in those moments forever.

We skyped Kindra!!! She watched like the entire show!

Went to a popular stop called "Culvers" its like Dairy Queen but.. custard

Beautiful little church

They had a shofar so we felt like we needed to blow it before the show :)

Hanging with Hollys friend Ben

Tour: Fantasitc Mr. Party

Hello!!!

Currently I'm sitting at Sea-Tac watching two cute laughing little kids and their dad... amazed at the kindness of God through complete strangers (as this is the first time I've flown alone, I've had a couple times already where I didnt know quite what I was doing and a few kind strangers directed me) and His wonderful family!

*sigh* Sometimes I really miss Seattle. Being surrounded by peers brings with it some sort of great excitement for some reason... not to mentioned when thoes peers are some of your favorite people in the world :)

Now, I will share you pictures of Emily and Jon's Fantastic Mr. Fox themed party. (including mashed potatoes, cider and SOCK PUPPETS :)

Music yes?

If God wills, 25 hours from now I'll be in Seattle hanging out with some AMAZING people for the night, then in the morning off to Wisconson to ride in a big RV with 6 other AMAZING people on a two and a half week road trip from WI, to CO and back to WA.

God You are incredible. May only You be glorified in all the goings on of this trip.

Just wanted to give a little update on my musical taste. Happened along a new band (not really new but new to me). And they might just become one of my favoirtes. They're called The Welcome Wagon. Folksy, Sufjan-style hymns.... mmm...mmm...good!

A Yearning in my Heart

Hello

Havent written here in a while. All the times I've wanted to I've been prevented or felt that whatever God was teaching me at the time didn't need to be written but lived out.

But this really needs to be read by more than just me

There have been so many different twists and turns in direction and so new revelation. I've had ups and downs, things staying the same, things radically changing. God is so much more real and sovereign than I've ever perceived before though He is more real and sovereign than I can even imagine now.

As for whats next for me, I've always wanted to serve the poorest of the poor. Whether that be a prideful desire to make myself look holy or it be placed on my heart from God, its been there.

When I hear stories like the one I'm going to share here, something rings so true in my spirit it feels like I'm catching the very heartbeat of God... A friend of mine from college, Luke Davis right after graduating spring of 09' premed went to work with (what I believe to be) a non-profit organization in the Dominican Republic. While he was there an earthquake devestated the neighboring country Haiti so he moved nearer to the boarder to help these desparate people. He has since came back home and this summer went back over, all the while keeping a blog which he periodically updates. From time to time I go back and read his blog to see how he's doing, this entry really rang true to alot of what God cares most about.

You can read his story here.

God bless

Why didn't I think of that???

To anyone who actually still follows this...

Hi :)

Big things have come and gone, God is still in control, big and good. I'm still in Quincy at the moment and trying to let God lead me into whatever He has next. First thing on the list of important life things for me to do right now, get my website running and presentable and get my name out there. Found an art website (which I am VERY suprised I didnt inspect as much as I could have earlier) called Behance which is seeming to be AMAZING. Just found this set of works on there and exclaimed...

















Heres a link to the peices on Behance: http://www.behance.net/gallery/See-_-Saw/56191

"as we forgive"

If I'm learning anything right now, I'm learning grace and forgiveness. The past few weeks have been some of the hardest of my life. But God has shown me just how much I have been trying to control the whole sitation and other people involved. He has convicted me of many other things as well. But I think most importantly, He has reminded me of the cross and the power of it. And how it is true that everything in life comes back to what God did that day. It really IS finished... and life is reminding ourselves everyday to GIVE UP and GIVE IN to His forgiveness... before it's too late.

A recent trip to my church in Seattle (Bethany Community) introduced me to this film called as we forgive, a film about the recent genocide victims and perpatraitors in Rwanda being reconcilled through forgiveness. It blew me away. I think God is showing me that though it is AMAZING to see and hear about people being healed of various illnesses and that does show the power of God... that maybe fogiveness shows it even more. Its really not a humans gut reation to forgive someone. First reaction is revenge or justice. And justice is a good thing, a thing we should all seek. Yet, "all we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way..." though a person might have wronged us, maybe in ways unthinkable like murdering our families, we know that we have also wronged others. And in the end and ultimately have wronged God, in ways we ALL cannot repay. Because of this, "the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53:6. We all have been wronged. We all have wronged others. The Creator of the heavens and the earth, of you and me laid ALL of that on His shoulders. Below is a quote from Savari, a man who killed 7 people in the genocide followed by a quote from Rosaria, a survivor of the genocide whos sister and family were killed by Savari.

Personally, I never believed that I deserved mercy. I'd put myself in a place where I thought God's mercy could not reach. I condemned myself because I felt that death itself was not enough payment for all the wrong I'd done. - Savari

How can I refuse to forgive when I'm a forgiven sinner too? According to God's Word, I am called to forgive him for I did not create this man. Even my family that he killed- I did not create them either. His crime was against God who created the people he killed. So I placed everything in the hands of God.- Rosaria