Prayer letter update

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to see this month's prayer letter/ministry update. (If you need a laugh today then take note of my face in the photo on the prayer letter. Something happened to the photo when I transfered the file to pdf format. I now look like Beeker and have no top lip. Too funny.)

I'm entering into this year's busiest week... the kick off of the fall semester. I can't wait to walk the campus and see it buzzing with nervous first year students clenching their brand new binders and campus maps. I remember the first day I went to University. I was terrified and constantly pretended that I knew where I was going even if I didn't. Some things don't change my friends.

I know that this is totally random and has nothing to do with this post topic but, I just have to say that we have such generous God. He lavishes on us and desires to walk in a relationship of mutual delight! I walked into a bit of a trial today, not knowing how to handle a current situation, and found myself slipping into anxiety over it. I came home to my room to pray about it and God washed wisdom and peace over me. He didn't have to but He did, He is so good. He gives gifts everyday like it is perpetually Christmas. I hope that everyday has that kind of excitement a child has Christmas morning. "I wonder what is under the tree today? I wonder what God has wrapped up as a surprise this time?"

Better Homes and Gardens

I'm all settled into my new place and ready to start my first day, officially, on campus tomorrow. I'm pretty excited for this week too because of the Consumed Gathering here in Edmonton. I can't wait!


I've propelled through so much change in literally months that I don't have words to give shape to what is in my heart. But, I'll try to find them... Since last winter there have only been three seasons in the world around me but there have been many, many, more in my Spirit. I sometimes don't even recognize myself anymore because of the renovations taking place in my heart and mind. Walls are knocked down, drawers dumped out -sorted- and put back in order, rooms repainted and now all the doors are open. This "forgetting who I was" isn't a crisis kind of thing, it is an adventure. I am discovering, daily, the fullness of life in walking in God's Spirit, and He is meeting me in deeply personal ways. I don't enjoy the things I used to, I don't even think the way I used to, my heart has become a wellspring and I am satisfied to the core with just needing Jesus.

I'll catch myself doing something mundane like walking down the street and then suddenly get awestruck for how God has worked around me and how deeply intimate His plans are. My very life is evidence of His enormous grace. I am so elated, to the point of tears, because of what God has been up to. At this very moment in time I could be in some city working as an artist and sessional professor, deeply disatisfied with wordly offerings of joy, and wondering what the point of toiling was. It was a sort of dark existance of running for an earthly goal only to reach it and find the reward pathetic and nowhere near a marker of satisfying joy. But today is different because God showed me a better way with a path that walks where Jesus walks. And that marker of joy is the cross because that is where Jesus died to pay for me so that I could walk with Him. This relationship with Jesus is better than anything I've ever had.

He has walked through all the rooms in my house as I've opened the doors, and now we are in the process of staging for an open house... This is going to be a remarkable year on campus. I can't wait to see how God moves in the hearts and minds of the students here in Edmonton. I can't wait to see heaven unfold here on earth because I love how He has unfolded it in my heart.

Moving mania

So I'm in the process of moving out of my parents house, a very comfortable mansionesque place, and into my own little room/hovel in the basement of a town house a stones throw away. Maybe it just going through change but I keep getting these little bursts of panic thinking things like... "I have too much stuff and it's not going to fit! I can't take all of my books with me... I have no furniture besides my bed and desk... I need to buy a clothing rack... Can I get a wardrobe, two dressers, a 13" wide cabinet, and a tv unit for under $20? I have to rummage through storage to find my crock pot..."

I got to thinking last night about my furniture situation. Here is the thing, my room doesn't have a closet so I think I'll use ikea to solve that one. I like their cheap chic ways. And, as far as the tv unit goes I'm going to make one out of cardboard. Seriously. I think I can do it in a day. I'm drawing up plans this afternoon and will go on the cardboard and glue hunt later today to start. I have a concern, though, about making a cardboard Entertainment centre/shelving unit... will it actually look good or ghetto? There is only one way to find out my friends.

There is only one way to find out.

Update August 14- who is kidding who? I'm not going to be able to make a trustworthy tvunit out of cardboard in one day. Televisions are heavy. That kind of project takes time, research, and engineering. It also takes a lot of time with an olfa knife and glue. It was genius at the time though.

If spotted do not stop to feed...

If you find this creature do not stop to feed, take pictures beside, or look it in the eye. It has been making violent appearances around Western Canada and is reported to be very dangerous.

It may try to lure you in by asking absurd questions in hopes of confusing and then overpowering you. Just walk away and pretend it isn't there, it doesn't matter if you are scared. Just walk away.