i have been shaped by my town.

Pine City.

a small town, small enough that the streets are stocked full with camp chairs 2 whole days before the parade.

so small that on about the third friday of every may you will find most kids, parents, and

grandparents at field day and the day after the elemaentary auditorium is filled twice for a entertaining show put on by the school teachers!

the news travels quick around here

the rodeo is big (all of the small town cowboys getting down)

i love it small

the fact is i wouldnt want it any other way

i love seeing my teachers act so silly and anticipating watching the bull riders

i love hearing the horses whinnying and the leaves rustling early in the morning

i never want to wake up to street construction or police sirens

i don't want to have to drive to see a green field

but as i speak Katie is packing to go off to NCU a college i will probably one day attend to get a pastoral degree... and i hate to say this but it is dead center in the middle of the cities.

this town, the country, these people

have shaped me and i am proud to say i live in the small little town of PC

its better then i ever imagined and i never want to leave so i am ejoying it right now when there is no doubt that it is mine.

it's been a long time

yes... it has
so lets catch up

1. I still miss camp, a lot, you just can't get rid of God's love
2. I went to Valley fair, for the first time, it was a great day spent with great people
3. Anna Marie, my sister, got engaged :)
4. Our family took our annual camping trip to the north shore... more about that later.
5. I am still planning on going to Africa

About Africa it is something i want now... right now...
here is how it goes...
at camp every night i walked the floor of the gym for about a half hour and prayed, every night again and again i would ask God to show me MY way, where he wanted me... he didn't answer until i got home, then one day in my head came africa, anna, me, your way, a month, pray ... so there you go, what you ask for you will receive in the name of the Lord according to his will. I thought about it and was happy a lot of things worked out

1. i wouldn't be going alone
2. it would be fun
3. it's Africa
4. i would get to get out of school

oh... school... my mind was quickly flooded with all the doubts, no ways, and the... you have got to be kidding your only 15. But wait, this is God's way for me...what are you thinking God, skipping a month of school or more... impossible ???
nothing is impossible with God
that is right nothing is impossible with God... still i got the same doubts from my family, and they continue to swirl in my mind, oh yeah and the money...
please pray with me, this is God's way for me...
i am sick of being the stand by christian,
i am sick of seeing others change lives
i am sick of being on American soil, where everything is supposedly so great
i am sick of not necessarily listening
so...
like i said pray... i am going to follow God's way this time
and throughout my life I've learned there is really no better way to go ...
he never fails ...