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Hello Again...

Well, hello my old blog.  It's been a while.  Over three years.  THREE YEARS.  It is incomprehensible to me that it's been that long since my trip.  I met some of my all time favorite people on that trip and I am so happy to say that we still (sort of) keep in touch.  And when we see each other, it really is like no time at all has passed.

I'd recently been considering starting up this blog again just for kicks, because sometimes I like to rant about things and why not share that with all you lovely people?  Also because recently I've been going through a lot of things - growing up and becoming an adult is hard.  Lots of things happen.  Lots of decisions are made.  And most importantly, lots of things are learned.  More than ever, life has felt like a journey now, and it's interesting to take a moment to look back and see how far I've come.  It hasn't always been forward motion, nor has it been a walk in the park, but it's my journey.  This past year especially was...interesting.  I took the lead of my journey and now I'm working on reinstating God as my guide.  He can see farther, he knows where he's going... whereas I was just trying to read the map upside down.

Now I'm trying to follow God's call for my life, and I believe he is leading me to go on a YWAM Discipleship Training School in Thailand.  It's a six month school starting in January 2014 with a Children at Risk theme.

http://www.arkintl.org/children-at-risk-dts

When I first began browsing around the many, many (MANYMANYMANY) YWAM bases around the world and all the DTSs they offer I found a Children at Risk themed school.  I was planning on attending a DTS in January 2014 and I said to myself if that school was offered at the time I wanted to go, that was the school for me.  And what do you know.  It is.  This is the only CARs DTS I found out of all the schools at all the bases and it is only being offered during January.  I think it's meant to be.  Anyone who knows me knows this is the perfect DTS for me - being able to work with children in slums overseas.  I am so excited!  This is my passion!  (One of them, at least.)

I've almost finished my application and will be sending it in within the next few days.  Praying that I get accepted.

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