40 days later...

it seems as though it has been forever since I have been in California...but in reality it's only been 40 days...

the last 40 days have been crazy to say the least. school has started, my internship has started, kxa has been going nonstop, i've gone back to work, and i've been trying to figure out what i want to do for the rest of my life...

school has been good. i'm only taking 13 hours and it's marvelous. it's a lot of work, but i'm enjoying my classes for the most part for the first time in a long time.

my internship at child protective services is amazing. i love it there. i know that i'm making a difference in people's lives, if only in the smallest way. i love being able to use all the things i've been learning about over the course of the last three years. i believe that my confidence is growing in the person that i am and i like that.

kxa has been crazy. i love it, but it's been crazy. we're going through a lot of reevaluating and refocusing, but it's been good for us. the leadership summit played a huge role in giving me this vision, and it's been such a blessing in my life. for such a time as this...

work is good, as always. i love working at the school of education and the people here were so gracious to work around my crazy schedule so that i could continue to work here this year. it's nice to know that there are adults in my life that care about how life is going.

figuring out what is next has been a journey to say the least. God really began to work in my life my last few days in california about what would be next for me and as i have come back to baylor, that has been solidified in my heart more and more everyday. my desire to see the church become involved in community/social ministries grows each day as i talk with more people and i figure out what that looks like in the community. i had the opportunity to sit down with one of my professors this week and talk to him about what this really all means and looks like, and it was such a wonderful conversation. the church is beginning to see the need for these types of ministries and it was interesting to hear how several churches that i have heard of as well as organizations are getting involved in these types of things. it excites me because i know that this is where God has called me, this is where my two passions collide. i've applied to graduate school here at baylor so hopefully i'll be starting that in july after i graduate in may. if i do the program here, i'll graduate with my msw in may 2009. i'm also thinking about seminary right now too, but i'm not sure if that's something i want to do right now or not. i'm still praying through all of that. i've also found a church that i will call home this school year and i'm super excited about getting involved there. they do some social/communtiy ministry stuff so i'm excited about being able to get involved in that way. it kind of reminds me of a smaller clovis hills, which is even more exciting to me. :)

so that's what life looks like 40 days after california. it's been an adventure and i'm not one for adventure...or at least i wasn't before june 4. God is so amazing and i know i'm where i am right now for a specific purpose and i'm just trying to live that out. i can't wait to go back to california and pray that that will be soon. i miss that place so much. i miss those people so much. while those strong feelings of wanting to be there are getting a little less everyday, there are somedays, like today, when my heart and body ache to be back there. my life truly is different because the people of clovis hills allowed me to come and spend the summer with them.