what is my "bloggone" problem?

i know this is not something you're supposed to admit, but...

don't you just love those times when you're calling someone and you are just hoping, hoping, hopppiiiinnng that it will go to voice mail...and it does?

8 ) my new favorite smiley.

in other news i am going to take a couple of classes part time this semester at Durham Tech...whoop whoop... i was so excited because today i made a 95/100 on my reading placement test and a 99/100 on my writing placement test! my math score will remain undisclosed ;)

this week will be semi busy as i am preparing to leave for the Dominican Republic on August 1st. i've been planning a trip for about 25 people for the last few months now. i am so surprised at where the Lord has taken my life. are you where you thought you would be a year ago? 5 years ago? 10 years ago? i know i'm not. no, i'm not disappointed...my life is in the Lord's hands, i am His handmaiden, He can take me where he wants to take me. 5 years ago i was convinced that i'd be in some 3rd world foreign nation as a missionary. my heart still longs for that, although i'm not sure that's where God will send me long-term anywhere in the next couple of years. my heart still longs for it though. oh, just to be with the poorest or the poor, the brokenest of the broken. so what if i have only a couple of outfits to wear? so what if they're ordinary? so what if i only eat rice everyday? so what if i'm hot? so what if i'm cold? so what if i have no bed? so what if no one knows about it? Lord, please help me to give my life away even now. to the poorest of the poor here. to the brokenest of the broken here. the orphaned teenagers...left to let society and MTV raise them. God, help me to love my own fatherless generation. help me to give my life for my own fatherless generation. wherever you will have me be, i'll be, i'll give my life for the glory of Christ.

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well that got a little more emotional than intended. but, i'll keep it. it's raw. and yes i realized my grammatical error in "brokenest". that will stay too.

please leave me a comment and say "hi"....
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PS- I LOVE WAFFLE HOUSE AND I'M NOT ASHAMED TO SAY IT :)

PPS-have you read The Shack? what did you think? i actually liked it for what it was. it definitely ministered to me in some ways. i would have to say one of my favorite quotes is, "I am especially fond of you," said by Papa. i could cry thinking about it. God says to us... "I am especially fond of you." wow

psalm 91, nyc

currently listening to: The (IHOP) Prayer Room [ihop.org]
currently drinking: vanilla honey chamomile tea with an Airborne tablet (which ruined it)
currently reading: Psalm 91

Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him.


I'm still waiting on my NYC mission trip photos, but here's a few to wet your appetite. It was a remarkable trip. Thank you God for blessing it and using us.
1.a kitten I convinced a guy to name "Lindsay"...muahaha
2.one of the kids we were reaching out to was baptized! we prayed for him... i'm guessing he felt a little awkward laying in the tub of water, soaking wet with a bunch of hands on him, but who knows?
more to come sooner than later, hopefully