Catching Up

A busy life, outdated website software, and getting hacked are all major contrubuting factors to my lack of updates. We’ll just leave it at that. Thanks to one of my besties, Ben Daron, my site is back up and running. I hope to continue getting it up-to-date, but you know me (or maybe you don’t), no promises! 😉

 

I can’t go through 2 years in detail but I can give you some major highlights. Since last posting I have (in no particular order):

 

Well that list was significantly longer than I had intended it to be! Life just keeps on rolling. It would be a grand idea for me to stop more often to marvel at the life I have and the adventures I have been on. I am blessed everyday and everyday there are more miracles around me. We had a speaker in chapel this week that reminded us about being grateful for the things in our life and showing our gratitude. He explained it like this: “The next time you’re tempted to complain about the airport, waiting, airplane food, etc think about the fact that you are sitting in a chair, in the sky, surrounded by a steel enclousre, going HUNDREDS of miles an hour. Think about! Is that NOT a miracle? You’ve got a cut on your finger. The skin and nerves and muscles WEAVE THEMSELVES BACK TOGETHER. What is NOT miraclous about that? OHHH man, you’ve got to wait 10 minutes for your email to load to send a message that will arrive instantly THOUSANDS of miles away. Would you rather send a carrier pigeon?” He definitely gave the kids (and the adults alike) a refeshing reminder that it’s easy to forget just how blessed we are. The last two years have FLOWN by and provided me with incredible opportunities. This school year is still new and I can’t wait to see what adventures await!

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Leaving on a helicopter

July 3, 2014 No Comments

So we flew on a jet plane north to Tuguegarao (it’s just as much fun to say as it is to spell)

Commence Life Change

July 1, 2014 No Comments

This is the face of how Hannah and I feel about May. It’s a no good terrible rotten time. Too much change, too many goodbyes, beginning a love hate/relationship with skype. But that is the life we lead, it is the nature of the expat/missionary life. When you venture to a place far away from the home and people you grew up with the world suddenly becomes a much bigger place. You can’t unmeet people and forget that life is going on without you in each new place anymore than you can forget that life goes on in the place you grew up, went to school, church etc. Sometimes I’m like whhhhy did I open that door? I cannot shove it shut! I cannot forget you people! But then I recognize that it’s only such a painful experience because it’s such a great experience. In the end, your world gets smaller because your friends begin to populate the areas between you and the people you love that are furthest from you. I could just play hopscotch across the globe and find pieces of my heart that were stolen from me (okay okay, I gave them willingly). Anyway, you get the idea.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

July 1, 2014 No Comments

This post is hard for me to write. Mostly because it’s hard to describe the experience with words. For those of you know the kind of experience I had with my senior theatre project at Cedarville then you understand exactly the kind of emotions, awe, and wonder that this production evoked. It truly was a midsummer night’s dream. NOT intentionally PUNNY! (The hot season in the Phils or summer is from from March to May. Our play was April 24-26. :o) The great thing about Shakespeare is that it a blank canvas, you can do whatever you want with it. But I’ve come to realize that the blank canvas can also be TOTALLY overwhelming when you aren’t an abstract thinker. Thankfully, I had willing people around me who stepped up to help brainstorm, design, choreograph, buy fabric, paint, sew, and tell me the ideas I did have weren’t crazy (even when they were). I felt like the luckiest director in the world as I sat in the audience and watched our creation come to life.

Corregidor

July 1, 2014 No Comments

For those of you who do not know what or where Corregidor is (and there’s a good chance you don’t really know since history books

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