Dearest Bloggy

It’s so unreal being here in France, to really be here. To wake up and breath French air and to talk to people in French and have them understand. For my mispronunciations to be caught be someone else. Finally realizing that I will be here through July, it’s so weird. That is so long, yet…

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Got my VISA!!

I got a call from the Consulate in Chicago saying that my Visa had been approved and is waiting for me to pickit up in chicago… Going to call and see if they can’t mail it up here but otherwise looks like I’ll be taking a day trip to Chicago to pick up my passport…

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Holding in Time

This is so surreal, France. I?m starting to work through everything placed before me for this summer, and it?s slowly becoming real to me. Real that this time next year I will be enjoying spring, budding trees, and flowers sprouting out of the black park soil in Toulouse. That these times here at Stout will…

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Broken Day

It?s a constant awe to me how the Lord teaches us and stretches us. In those times when we feel as though we?re walking with God and then in a day everything changes and we?re thrown on our head. As though we finally looked to our left and saw how far God was from us…

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Being Predestined

Kick-off weekend just ended and I am now ‘equipped‘ to go out and build up my ministry partners that will be with me while I’m in Toulouse this upcoming year. Both through prayer and financial support. There is a bit of nervousness, mostly just anxious to get started. I redid one of the notebooks they…

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Life Update+++

It’s a matter of Righteousness… Just got a couple thoughts and then a little life update. The more that I dive into scripture one truth (aside from the core truths of God?s love and grace) is showing it?s face to me for those who believe and trust their lives in Christ. That it is a…

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WooHoo for France! STINT

For those of you who haven’t been reading lately I’m in the process of deciding if I am going to do STINT (Short Term INTernational) this upcoming year from September until July. It’s been quite the process, from being told I couldn’t go to being told I could. Then needing to discern if it was…

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Discerning STINT, to go?

I?ve been having quite a few conversations over the last couple days (thanks Rachel, MM, Chris, Jay…) seeking out the Lord and counsel from those He?s placed around me, whom I trust greatly. When I found out Tuesday that it was still an option to go I had the chance to do this, to really…

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