A neat and concise summary of the last month or so of my life…

Oh, man! I feel like I have so much to share of what I’ve had going on in my life right now!  It’s all been so good and the Lord is continuing to remind me of how awesome His presence is. I’m so thankful for that. The last few days I’ve been doing a word study of sorts on the word “Remember”, specifically looking at Deuteronomy 8 and also Jeremiah 2. I think I forget easily about the ways God has worked in my life and shown me such incredible grace and given his incomprehensible peace. I desperately want to hold on to all of that, especially with the huge life transitions that I have coming up shortly. Mostly because…

THIS IS MY LAST SEMESTER OF SCHOOL!!! How cool is that!?!? Reeeeeeaaaaaallllllyyyyyy cool, I know! But with that comes a tendency to want to mentally check out and coast the rest of the way. I do not want look back some day on these last few months of school and think, “Wow, I really could have done a lot better there”. That would suck. So I’m running the race, right down to the very end. Pray for me in that!

Winter break was such a breath of fresh air!  I got to spend the first week of it at my parents house for Christmas before leaving for AMSTERDAM!!! OH MY GOODNESS was that a sweet trip that was! Myself and a team of six others from Jessup spent a little under two weeks working at two separate Christian hostels in the city, serving in the café mostly and talking to the guests who came in from all over the world. I got to meet people from so many different places: a guy who grew up on the island of Tasmania, a student from China who was going to school in Canada, two other guys from India studying in France, this dude from Colombia, and others from all over Europe and the States, too. It was so stinking awesome! The hostel ministry they had there was so perfect for such a dark city where people come in seeking such worthless things to fill them. It was sad, but way rad to be able to talk to some of the people coming in for New Years about God and different ideas of who He is what He is about. My faith (and that of those who volunteered at the hostel) seemed so real to me there, with opportunities to represent God every day in the littlest things. It really made me want to come back here and go back to work serving at the restaurant I used to work at, both to be back and serve people again, but also to be around people who don’t believe what I do again. It was so refreshing! God did some amazing things there and I’m blessed to have been a part of it. If you’re ever in the area, check out the Shelter Christian hostels in Amsterdam. You won’t regret it!

That’s pretty much been the gist of it all recently. I told a great story at the Open Mic Night event we have here about a Giant Panda who goes into the restaurant, eats a delicious meal, and then pulls out a gun and shoots everyone around him before leaving. The survivors were confused and so they took out an encyclopedia to see if this was normal behavior for a Giant Panda. The entry in Volume P of the encyclopedia stated: “Panda, Giant – Normally of docile temperament, lives in China, eats shoots and leaves”.

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GET IT!?!?! Okay, dumb, I know. Stories/jokes like that are my absolute favorites, though.  They make me giggle…

P.S. Pictures coming soon. I should be a pro at this by now…

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