Honduras – June 2011

{ May 31, 2011 @ 12:41 am } · { Honduras 2011 }

Hi all!

So sorry that it has been so long since I have updated. Since last updating I have:
- Begun a new job as a Resident Director in the Student Development Sector at Lee University.
- Gotten full swing into a Master’s program in Mental Health Counseling.
- Not been to Honduras in two years…

All of these above bullet points have led to quite a lot of development, growth, challenge and thoughts. I have wondered how Honduras plays into my future, what God has planned for me in Honduras, how Mental Health Counseling is going to play into my future, how Student Development will play into my future. All of these questions are crucial, and yet I am content. How is this possible?

I wish I could fully attribute this lack of fear to my own capabilities. But I know that’s not true. I have faith that when the time is right, God will lead to me to the next step. He has so far. There are a lot of reasons to trust God in my life. He has promised that He has plans for me. He has promised that He loves me and has good gifts for me. But I can also look back at the past to see the pattern in my life. There have been moments when I questioned whether I would be ok. But then, He opens a door or someone calls that He had connected me with….He is so good! So I have to trust Him.

This summer is even an indication of His blessings. I got called to work with a group that I translated with two summers ago. They are an incredible, generous, passionate group of people that I am so excited to work with again. They are supporting me. I’m also going to work with Paul and Kim Dyar again for a week before the other group comes – they are blessing me as well! It is unbelievable that God has kept these doors open through the relationships built over time. I am so excited to see what He does during these 3 weeks in me and what he speaks to me. He is opening up possibilities and leading me to new paths. I do not know what these days will bring but I am using these Scriptures as my starting point:

1bAnd let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

I do not have to have all of the answers, I do not have to know where God will take me in the future, you do not need to know what the final result is going to be – we need to develop our relationships with Christ and depend on Him to take care of us. Trust in Him to guide us and come alongside us for the journey, through the good and the troubled times. Trust Him for your future as I trust Him with mine.

Please keep me in your prayers! Let me know how I can be praying for you throughout the summer.

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