for Him

while my family is most certainly NOT perfect, i am really glad my mom and dad have raised us all to be...shall we say...not high-maintenence? it really has helped me so SO much with adjusting to this different culture and surroundings. despite no hot water and dusty rooms and rotting mattresses and insane pollution, Russia, or Moscow, rather, is becoming normal to me. and i guess it should 3 weeks into the trip. CRAZY. almost half way over. we are taking a train to St. Petersburg this upcoming weekend. i have heard it is absolutely BEAUTIFUL...gateway to Western Europe. ok well i am off to try and call my mom and some others. another week of ministry and stretching and growing other kinds of God activities. and another thing...the other day i really realized that I exist for God. i am halfway across the world to tell people about Jesus. i live and breathe solely for Him and because of Him. i mean i have always heard that and known that, but the other day, it really hit me. yeah. the breath i just took was for and because of Jesus. and the next, and the next hour and the next day, and week and month and year. hopefully i will keep on realizing it more fully, day after day, whether in Moscow or Athens or Cumming. ok really going now. paka friends.