I got my ACCEPTENCE letter today! (To be a communications Journeyman in West Africa) Well, it was waiting for me when I got back to Richmond tonight. YEAH! I am going to West Africa!

My life finally seems to have direction. I have a plan. I have a place to live. I have a job to do. And I like all of them. There is still a lot of things I do not know about the next two years. But, I think I am Okay with the unknown. I have to constently remember God is incontrol of everything, every emotion, every thought and my future.

It is amazing how God uses all things to His Glory. Who would have thought even the words I write glorify Him? It is so humbling to remember. I often wonder what the writers of the Bible felt like knowing God was using them to give us His Word. Did they know their words would remain for thousands of years? Did they know it would be the most sold and read book in history? I know God did, but did He tell them?

Looking to the future, I find strength in Paul. Even to the end of his life he praised God. Though prison, starving, no home and many enemies, he still believed God controled His life. Over the next two years I pray to have faith like Paul, to write even if there is "a thorn in my flesh."

August does seem to have gone by quickly. Now I only have two more months until training. Life does seem to be a little more final now with the letter telling me I can go. There is still a ton to be done. Two months will fly by.