Okay, so I wasn't all that great at keeping my website up to date from West Palm Beach, but please know that it wasn't because of a lack of "want to," but rather just a lack of time.

This summer was crazy! It was amazing, wonderful, blessed, challenging, invigorating, refreshing and draining all at the same time. God was so incredibly faithful to us who were "doing" Fuge at PBA. I knew going into this summer that one of the biggest challenges would be to keep it "fresh." Fresh for the students who were coming week after week and fresh for those of us who were essentially doing the same Bible studies, the same games and activities and the same worship experiences for 8 weeks in a row. And let me tell you.... That was one of the most amazing things to me! As we continued to seek God out, He continued to reveal Himself to us in new and fresh ways. As the summer went on, I realized that some of those old struggles that I have, still exist. I haven't "gotten over" them yet. I am still gripped by pride and I'm fighting my will, over surrendering things to God. And time after time God showed Himself to us. Many times reminding me to just let go and let Him do what He wanted to do. Every week I would stand up in front of the students and I would tell them about how the theme of the last day of camp was "Surrender More," but that "Surrender More" was actually the underlying theme of the entire week and that God was whispering into each of our ears that this was really what life was all about. Are we ready to surrender? Are we ready to give up our ideas about how things are supposed to work and how things are supposed to go? Are we ready to step out and surrender all that we have to live on? Are we ready to surrender our desires in order to daily pick up God's desires? This is something that I have to keep learning. I'm guessing that it's one of those life-lessons that I will keep learning and learning and learning.... over and over.

As I get ready to board a plane in just 8 short days to fly to London for a year, to take on a ministry position at a church I'm not very familiar with, in a town I've never been to, with people that I've never met, I have to remind myself of how this is the time to surrender. This is the time when my flesh tells me that I should manipulate and maneuver around things until I am comfortable with the way I have made them, but instead, I need to learn to rest in the Truth that God is in complete control, that He is working out His plan and that I can find peace in the midst of all of these changes if I can just let go and let God. Just let go and let God do what He does best.... work all things for good.