Ups and Downs
When you live you learn. What goes up must come down. anyone who knows me knows that
the last few weeks of life have been the greatest since I entered graduate school. These last 6-7 months have been like a slow climb up a steep mountain. The last few weeks have been like planting a flag on the mountain top.

In the midst of it all, I have only had a strong humbling that reminded me of God being my strength.

Which brings me to today.

Like a daggar in the heart of a bald eagle. I'm humbled in a compleatly different way. I'm humbled with a strong sadness that beats at my heart.

I've returned home again to visit my family one last time before I head out to Kenya. I'm hurt by a few circumstances that wouldn't be proper to place on the web. This is the thing. I know it is a part of the plan. I know this is neccisary for me to be the man God desires of me. I'm shedding off my skin so that I might continue in this initiation into manhood. Like a butterfly outgrowing a cacoon. Except it's not as beautiful.

No it's not beautiful.

All in all. I consider it joy to face trials of many kinds because I know that the test of life developes percevierence. And percevierence must finish it's work inside of me so that I can be mature and compleate. So that I will lack nothing. So that I can walk in the fullness that God has for my life.

In the end I know that all that happens to me works out for the Glory of God in the end.

Life is not for the swift but for those who endure. In the ups or downs.