Another Applicaiton....Please pray!

World Vision
Child Survival Monitoring and Evaluation Officer -- Location: Herat

Some Wikipedia about Herat...ancient relics of Alexander the Great sounds fascinating!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herat

Dear old friends who I would love to work with.

www.jerrydaniels.org

Please pray as this decision is weighing very heavily on my mind. I want to do what is glorifying to God.

A cool website with computer art:

www.digitalblasphemy.com

A new day, a new application.

www.frontiers.org

Well,the past few weeks I have spent more time hanging out with friends than I had in years. I have also been internally challenged about standards which I have held for a long time. Certain view about how to act around guys, how to avoid every appearance of evil, and the like. I know how they looked when I was little, but how do they look in 2008?

My conclusions? I am so thankful for the standards I had growing up, strict as they may have been. I have been so protected and have avoided so much pain that many others have not. In addition, I am entering my late 20s with no real baggage from my past.

I want everything I do to be glorifying to God. Yet these standards are not standards just to have rules. They are ones which are glorifying to God.

So what are these crazy standards? Right now, I don't drink. I don't think I've had more than 2 glasses of wine in my whole life, but I want to conciously abstaining until God directs me otherwise. Mainly because it is a stumbling block for some...going on the mission field and drinking don't mix...and I believe it makes me crave a lifestyle which God does not have for me. I've also had very high standards on the type of person I date and the physical boundaries that I have. I want to continue that. If I do marry, I want to marry someone who will spur me on spiritually.

On a different note, no updates on jobs yet! I have a resume off to Texas for Manna, but no response yet.

Please pray for Kenya as the country continues to face turmoil. I keep thinking of all the friends I have there and how much this impacts there daily lives.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/?ok

Here's me celebrating midnight at Table Rock! We just did the short run this year...no run from the bottom. Not as much fun, but a lot easier! I love this tradition, but it is sad I only get to spend it with a portion of the group... I may need to try and bring a few more people in!

I celebrated New Years with our Young Professional group! It was rather a bitter sweet night. Today, I have to start heading back to the real world. Over the break I was able to spend lots of time with friends and family I hadn't seen in a while. Not only that I got to go dancing! Totally the highlight of my break as I love to dance. Guess I have to put the dancing shoes up for now and pull out the books.