I need not cry

I hate the Devil
He does not care
He’ll lure you in
Then crush your face and heart

His joy is my anguish
And this disfigurement
My God will conquer you
Devil, just you wait

My God can pull me out
From those slimy fingers
I need not cry…
My God will hold me close.

I need not cry...

Last Post

I’m finally getting around to my last blog. I’ve been putting it off if you didn’t notice. Blogging was good especially because it helped me to express what I was going through and now I can go back and see how the experiences were and perhaps learn even more from them later.

So, after graduation I moved out of the dorm. My experience at WA is finished. I will miss the girls. Just as I started to really bond with many of them I had to leave. I am both glad and sad. It’s rather bittersweet.

Things that I have noticed now that I’m through are that I’m a more confident person. By stepping out of my comfort zone and away from the familiar I developed a sense of service and willingness to be more vulnerable for God.

I think when we become content sticking with the norm it’s easy for our lives to become stale. By pushing the boundaries of what we once thought we couldn’t do we become aware of God’s amazing power to do things in our lives whether that be in helping us to grow or guiding others in their journey to know God and follow Him.

Through it all it’s all His doing. We can’t take any credit. I can’t take any credit, for deep down, I’m truly a mere child; scared, naïve, inexperienced, and fragile. God is my source for anything good. Through Him I am brave, and strong, and I thank Him for taking my life this year and using it for something. I won’t know exactly what He’s done until He brings us home to heaven but I want Him to continue doing what He’s been doing far into the future and with even more fervor than before.

This year has truly changed my life. The process of planning, getting ready going, and recovering has been just under two years. I can scarcely believe it. I wouldn’t give up the experience for the world.

I have changed my major and plan on becoming a high-school science teacher. I haven’t decided if it will be in the private or public program. In whatever it is I hope to inspire a love of God in my students as well as a deep awe for what he has created. I realize this will be harder in the public system but God is good and has ways of working.

I still keep in touch with a few of my students and hope not to lose contact. I want to know how their lives progress.

I want to thank everyone for their support, prayers, and wishes.

This will be the last time I will notify everyone of blogs. I don’t really plan on blogging much in the future but may now and again, so feel free to check back at your leisure.

Everyone can be a missionary. All they need is a willing heart and God will use that where ever they are. It is my prayer that everyone will acquire the heart of a missionary.

In closing, I want to say, what an adventure!!! I am so happy about it. Below is a song that I wrote in the last week or so. It’s with the ukulele I bought in Yap. It’s about coming to God completely open asking him to lead everything. This year has been a testimony of the good and the bad and how God can use both for His glory.