and Keep on Running

Hey everyone!! I hope you are doing well! We have been crazy busy here as week 3 of DTS comes to a close. We have 6 crazy, awesome students, and I am so proud of them as I watch them step out and grow. So far we have had 'Character and Nature of God', 'Hearing God's Voice', and 'Father Heart of God'. I am loving the time spent with the students as they learn and seek truth.

Coming into this DTS I was worried about what I would have to give the students, as I am younger than them all. But God has been showing me He has called me and equipped me "For such a time as this." My experiences and the things God has been sharing with me speak so much to where some of the students are at now, and its crazy to think of how intentional God was when He brought this little family together, knowing He had given me exactly what they need.

Exploring the city of Adelaide and Glenelg with the DTS.

God has me on an incredible faith journey, I am loving the time I spend with Him every morning, and He has been giving me some crazy things to process. During one of my God times I got a picture of the Father giving me different things. I had a realization of how He never gives us more then we can handle, because He carries everything for us. When He gives us a word, He hands it to us, but His hands remain open. He gives us as much time as we need to look it over and process it, and when we are ready He takes it back and carries it for us until He wants to reveal something else about it, or we want to see it again. I had been using the terminology of shelving it or putting it on the back burner, but now I realize that its handing it back to God. Even when He opens your perspective to a new option, He then takes a step back and gives you the choice. God has been teaching me more and more how to trust His direction for my life.

Elizabeth has moved back in!! I am so stoked to have her as a roomie again, and to do life with her again!

It was great to make the trip to south Adelaide to catch up with Travis, Pixi, and Tom Johnson as they and others involved in the ministry gathered to celebrate 5 years of Access the Story, and the season they are moving into. I love what Access the Story do, and have experienced a fair bit of it first hand through my parents.

In addition to Access The Story's birthday, there have been quite a few birthdays here on base, including my own. Thanks everyone for the well wishes and gifts. I appreciate you all so much. This was my first birthday away from home and I felt very loved.

Last night we were blessed to be apart of an Ignite worship night. It was quite dark and cold, but before the worship started there was a very impressive rainbow, and as worship started, a clearing in the storm clouds appeared above us, and although it was lightly raining later in the evening, it was hardly any. It was so cool to be with a broader family of believers, in a literal fort worshiping Jesus, even in the rain.

I hope this encourages and blesses you guys, as you have blessed me by being apart of this journey! Thanks for always supporting me! God Bless <3