Haiti on monday

after a budget mix up, we have all of the money necessary for our trip. after many switches and changes, we seem to be set up to work with an orphanage and help work with a church in port au prince and then spend three weeks with YWAM st marc. who knows what else God has planned, but seeing his faithfulness coming to pass is one of the biggest blessings i've ever received...

-We ought not to grow tired of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

a little bit of the most recent me

so... i will be headed to haiti on monday with three other leaders and 23 students. we will be spending seven weeks and i have been so worried about things and what's going to happen and how things are going to work, but God has literally thrown encouraging words and situations in my face. i don't know why i so easily forget Him and His faithfulness. He is so good and trustworthy, but i forget it as soon as a new obstacle arises. i was praying the other night and i began to just speak open to God with where i was at. before i knew it, i was saying things that i had no idea i had been going through. i love the honesty that i can have with my amazing father and friend...

and i love his honesty when he softly speaks... I LOVE YOU JOSHUA, I ALWAYS WILL.

p.s. please pray for myself and our team. we will definitely be involved in a spiritual battle and battling natural things at the same time. thank you.

LOVE

LOVE is patient, LOVE is kind. LOVE does not envy, LOVE does not boast, LOVE is not proud. LOVE is not rude, LOVE is not self-seeking, LOVE is not easily angered, LOVE keeps no record of wrongs. LOVE does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. LOVE always protects, LOVE always trusts, LOVE always hopes, LOVE always perseveres.

There is true LOVE, I just need to choose it... we all need to choose it.

piano man...

i met a man today named nick juele.

nick was rugged in sight and shifty in vision.

he was playing a piano on pearl street in boulder, colorado for the small amount of change and bills filling up a red dixie cup sitting atop his blanket covered instrument. spending close to an hour enthralled in story after story, i hated saying goodbye to my new friend. nick's love for music, a sarcastically excited understanding of the daily grind, and a deep knowledge of pain and joy was evident in his story and song. many rough patches and few breaks. music is a hard road he said. life is a hard road...

nick said he didn't normally do this, but he gave me a cd.

nick was kind.

nick wanted to share his story.

nick was heard.