Learning to Dance.

Writer's block seems to consume me once again, and I'm not sure how to express all that's gone on in the past few weeks. I suppose starting at the beginning is the best way to go about this, as it is with all stories and tales.

I didn't raise enough money to go to Destination Paradise, in Belize, for the May school. I suppose after I learned I couldn't go to that school, I went into a downward spiral. The Pity Party, as we all well know, takes hold of an individual, this time me, and doesn't like to let go. I felt a bit dejected and depressed after not being able to go to Belize and the DP school in May, and so I shirked everything that I was supposed to be doing, and fell behind in updating others who had invested time, money, prayer, and emotion into my cause. It was not a pretty picture. People began to doubt that I was even going to make it in September. I began to doubt, to think I had no chance of raising enough money in the few months left before the September school.

And then God sent me a letter.

The most beautiful words I have ever read were, "Will you dance with Me?" These words came in the form of a letter that I recieved over e-mail, just when I was feeling at my lowest. And I believe, once I read that simple phrase, and those accompanying it, I heard a collective gasp from Satan and his cohorts...he wasn't holding me back any more.

I'm writing this to let everyone know that I am out of my dejected state of mind and have delved into the mid of a conqueror. I believe that I have the time and resources to gather the rest of the required money for my school. ($994.64 USD for the Lecture phase... Outreach Phase and Internship are unkown at this time, yet I would still like to start saving for them this summer, as well as for spending money.) I intend to use that time and those resources to pull out all of the stops on this fundraising trip!

I want to thank each and every one of you who has been reading this blog and keeping up with me, for your support. Without you, I would not have the energy and drive to be doing this. Thank you, family and friends! I will write again soon.


These trials have come that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ...

1 Peter 1:7