Life is weird.
It’s up and down.. you know? it’s to the side, is crooked .. it’s to and fro. You make it, you fake it, you shake and bake it. A few days and your heart can feel great, your mind is at rest and you feel like around every corner Jesus will be there to give you a hug.
Then some weeks you fail, and fall down and mess up and quite frankly life just hurts.
I am a piece of drift wood on a stormy day in the ocean. I drift between these two worlds.
I am jacks bleeding esophagus.
I am jacks thrown up yogurt parfait.
Consistency is something in my life I always long for, always wish I had. But if I had it would I get bored? No. But I think I would. Which tells me maybe I should grow up. There are exciting elements to not having a routine life, but in matters like reading the bible, praying… growing… perhaps eating healthy and staying in contact with those I love… I could most certainly use a leg up in the climbing of the consistency tree.
For the past few weeks since I was out in the jungle for a month, I have been under the supervision of lovely Elizabeth. She is Project manager for Program Development. She is the brilliant lobe who wrote the impact assessment and trained all of the numerators and myself. She is a mover and a shaker. She’s is also quite fun and loving and caring. I learn a lot from her. We hang out very much outside of work and it’s very nice. I have been able to be her secretary these few weeks. When she leaves for meetings during the day in town, I organized her desk a little bit, run make copies, arrange for quick meetings and drink the rest of her coffee.
A new intern comes in 3 days and to be honest I already don’t like her. What? I’m just kidding. But seriously. What if she is really cool and people like her better than me? No I’m not serious. I’m excited for her to come. She just better not be cool, or funny, or good looking.
Totally kidding. Noooot really
Her (new intern) and I for the month of July and my last weeks in August will be running VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL! IN THE MIDDLE OF THE JUNGLES UGLY WET MOUTH. The philistines are upon us and I am not excited about it. And by philistines I mean rainy season. When it rains here, it waterfalls. You can’t walk out of your house in it without feeling like you just tried surfing for the first time. You are soaked and sad. So new intern and I will be upcountry and out in villages for 9 weeks playing with kids and telling them about Jesus in gross conditions. But who really cares. I get to tell kids they are loved and play games with them and act like a child. It will be great. I’m working on the curriculum for it now… brainstorming inventive ideas… how to make these kids ‘get it’ but not just understand in their minds about Jesus, but in their hearts. I’m thinking lots of skits and puppet shows. And candy!! And hugs!!
I was deemed Project Manager over VBS 2010 which made me nervous… nervous where my entire insides were attacked with waves of anxious lizard tales that tingle with the force of a thousand tooth fairy prickles…
Yet it also gave me a sense of worth and significance as far as leadership goes here at sp. I’ve been just the ‘intern’ for 3 months now… taking orders… taken numbers. Now though I get to oversee a project… make some key decisions… and feel needed.
VBS is taken quite seriously here actually, as it should. Satan hates it. The devil wants to destroy the efforts and the love the VBS team wants to put into these kids all over this country. Telling the younger generations about a powerful God and seeing life changes is the best thing we can do for the foundation of Liberia and its potential rising leaders! So of course these labors will be met with stronger opposition than I think we understand. I know the team of 2009 faced many scary spiritual warfare type situations out in the villages, where they felt very oppressed and could sense a greater evil trying to destroy any and all of their work with the kids. So VBS Liberia 2010 definitely needs some prayer. I want to piss Satan off. I want him to try and ruin things, I just want to be prepared when he tries. I am fighting for a great power here and have confidence in that victory. We just need to be soldiers along the way and not be discouraged. So if you want too, go ahead and pray for our team. It will help.
Anyone else watching The World Cup? Anyone else think that they saw some cuties on the Japan team Monday night?!!?
Today I am catching Mexico vs France.
Yo quiero taco bellllllllll! No but seriously
