I'm OFFICIALLY (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) going on STINT in Panama. This is awesome!!! Haha I have the biggest grin on my face right now and my genetics essay is going to be way harder to get finished tonight now, haha oh well, totally worth it, wow God is cool! I totally needed this after the week I just had..... :)

There is simply a lot going on and its kinda all combining together into a big mess, well not really a mess.... but you probably know the feeling. I woke up yesterday and the sky was glowing this weird red-orange color. In my dazed stupor that is me when I wake up, the initial confusion wore off and I just remember thinking that I really wanted to see a Panamanian sunset or sunrise, and just praying and telling God that I am ready to go. Steps are in motion to be joining staff and going for some training in May so that's going to be intense but I'm really looking forward to seeing the plans that God has for my life come into play. Still waiting on "formal acceptance" for the team, but then I'm ready to rock!

The first couple of days of the semester were a little insane but life is slowly back down to a normal but still hectic pace. C4C is gearing up for our major outreach of the semester and I think that it is definately going to push the comfort level for a lot of us. Porn Nation: Pure Freedom (the event) examines the hyper-sexualization of our culture and how this affects our lives as students. It's really going to hit home for a lot of people, but at the same time I think in many ways its an issue in which we as Christians dodge around. No one really likes to talk about the whole thing so I know its going to be a challenge for a lot of us. But we'll see, it's going to bo good and I know that theres a lot to be said for being uncomfortable. It's meeting people where they're at and going from there.

School had begun again and its finally sinking in that this is the last semester. God and I had what I jokingly call an argument at Winter Conference about me joining staff with Campus for Christ. I know that it's what God is calling me to do and things at the grad seminar at conference popped up about unmet needs. C4C is on only 27 out of the top 40 campuses in Canada and the campuses we have staff on are not even all fully staffed. That to me signifies an unmet needs, thousands of them when you think about the individual students on those campuses.

Today I was thinking about the whole thing and really starting to realize that although I believe that Gods will is good and perfect for my life, it's still is sometimes not the easiest thing to follow or even what I want to do. My pastors wife told me on Sunday that you never feel capabale and you never feel equipped but still the call (to ministry) is the greatest and most amazing thing ever. Not of course to say that God is calling all of us to full time ministry but that the call to be doing his work is the greatest thing ever. Not necessarily the easiest, or even the most straightforward, but the best. I choose to believe that his plans are good for my life, and I'll hold onto that tight. STINT, then staff, I honestly never would have thought, but I guess thats the cool things about God, we just never really know do we?

2 years ago today I broke my leg! I went out for lunch with a friend today and it really got me thinking about the changes I've seen in my life over the past little while and really sorting out where my heart is at in relation to ministry and I guess to life in general. More to come for sure, but Happy New Years, it's sure to be an interesting one!