Missions trip- Everyone else

Recently, it seems like everyone except me is going on a missions trip. My older sister, DeLynn is in South Africa on a DTS with YWAM. Kaeli, my best friend is going to Eastern Washington to put on a VBS for Migrant workers' children. Her older sister is in South Africa, too. My friend Laci is in Mexico on a trip with her church. My friend Brenda just left for a performing arts DTS. She might be gone for a few years! Another of my friends, Corrie, just got back from a missions trip in Africa with her family.
So, what I want to know is- why not me? I know that God's timing is a whole lot different (and better) than mine. Maybe I am supposed to go on a missions trip this summer, but don't know about it yet : ) God works in mysterious ways : )
Whatever the reason, I am trying not to be jealous and to pray for all of them. Maybe that's my summer mission- prayer. I know that God has placed the prayer-warrior calling on my life. Sometimes,though, it is hard to pray and not go out and do something. I know, though, that when I pray, more could happen through others than if I were there trying to help.
God, whatever your will is, please show me how to join you in your work. I love you. Thank you.

OPI

Awhile ago, I went on a Environmental Science field trip to OPI... Olympic Parks Institute. It was tons of fun, and I learned a lot. Hopefully I can post some pictures soon. Oh, and this happens to be my first post from home. All my other ones were made else where.

Correction

Sorry, but thank you to the person who posted a comment on my last post. I made a small error. Here in the USA, we don't have two words, but in other countries they do.

Oranges

Random Thought of the day: why do we have two different words for the orange fruit and the orange color? Who decided that? I just recently found out that other languages have two words and it sparked my noggin's wonderings on this positively abstract conundrum.

Annual Signing

Yearbook signing is a strange an foreign thing. Truthfully, I have only done it for the past two years, so as to it being foreign, to most, this is easily explained. However, my belief in it being foreign is that when it is required for everyone to sign an annual, those who have nothing to say are forced to say something lame like, "have a great summer" or "class has been fun". Oh, brother! On top of this, when the person really means for you to have the best summer of your life, they aren't taken seriously because everyone else is wishing them the exact same thing. The people who know you best are always the ones who can't think of anything to say. That is one of the most frustrating things. And, when you finally think of something to say, it is years later at an obscure gathering of equestrian thesbians, and it doesn't matter anymore. Everyone who you would like to write and list all the wonderful things that you just realized about them is dead, have combovers and have become unrecognizable due to too many years in jail, too many plastic surgeries, or haven't changed at all and, as a result, you wouldn't dream of corresponding with them!! Anyways, I find myself a sceptic in the area of yearbook signing, and yet, I love reading whatever intelligent (or inteligible) things people care to tell me.

Teacher's Assistant

I'm a Teacher's Assistant for Academy Northwest. Sometimes it's hard to balance the thoughts of a student with the thoughts of a teacher, but I enjoy the challenge. Right now I'm at the office, but my teachers (LK1 and LK2) are out of the office at a meeting. I know that my teachers trust me and that means a lot to me. I've had times in my lfe when it was hard to find someone who would trust me, so I value their trust even more. Aside from teaching me how to be a teacher (my profession of choice), they have taught me life lessons on marriage, faith, love, trust, and friendship. I would consider them mentors instead of just teachers. I feel so priveleged to be a TA and to have their trust.

Shiloh Bible Camp

Yesterday I got home from a Study Retreat at Shiloh Bible Camp in Cosmopolis, WA. The main theme of the weekend was choices. However, choices wasn't really the main focus. We talked about the principles of sowing and reaping. Galatians 6:7-10 was our main text. It was interesting to me that sometimes, no matter how long you've talked about a scripture and not gotten it, you hear it once and really understand it. Having time to mull over the concepts contained in these three verses (and others on the same topic) really helped me understand how imporant one decision can be. A decision is not the end. Instead, It is the means to an end.
The Seven laws of The Harvest Are:
1. We reap only what has been sown
2. We reap the same in kind as has been sown
3. We reap in a different season than we sow
4. We reap more than has been sown
5. We reap in proportion to what has been sown
6. We reap the full harvest of the good only if we persevere; the evil comes to harvest on its own
7. We can't do much about last year's harvest, but we can about this year's
These principles can be found in everyday life. No matter where we go, it's incredible that, because they are God's laws, they reach everywhere and everything.