Winter Poetry

It arrives in the night

with swift unyielding might

and covers the world in white.

Snow makes winter bright.

It's beautiful in sight

with a cold deadly bite

and strength I cannot fight.

Discover Newsletter and Papers I Wrote

The new Discover Newsletter:
http://www.prairie.edu/Discover/Newsletter.pdf

A paper I wrote on Exodus 16:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgrnqsjd_65556rz6hc

A paper on The Nature of God:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgrnqsjd_66hkwxk6gq

A paper on the Nature of Man:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgrnqsjd_67gggk8z63

A paper on Values:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgrnqsjd_68vqcfwdh4

Women in Darfur

Stairs and Fundraisers

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The last 5 photos are of the fundraiser auction cafe night we put on to raise the money we need for our practicum in El Salvador. I was the M.C. and there were tons of live performances, snacks, people, and auction items. We did a silent and live auction and in the end we raised around $2,500. Overall it went extremely well.


I spent the entire day today in my room working on homework with the exception of two meals. It was fine. I could use prayer for time management and a godly attitude for the next couple of weeks. I've got a steady stream of papers to stay on top of. I'm really enjoying most everything I'm learning including the papers that I have to write; I just don't have much time to do them.

I've been missing people back home a bit.

Good news is I will be coming home on the 11th of December for the break.

See you then.

2X ULTRA Tide

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I had a break last week during which I was home. I spent Halloween night in downtown Portland with Walker. It was really fun. Drunk people are funny. I was a king and Walker was a roller disco waiter.
I forgot how beautiful Oregon is. I love it here in Alberta and it's beautiful in it's own way, but it's hard to beat Oregon fall colours after a fresh rain with the sun shining through the dripping forest.

I took a train from and back to Portland. It was AWESOME! Oh also I was in downtown Portland and I needed to get to the airport, so I asked homeless people for help. They know the city well. I've really started to love talking to strangers. It sucks that we can sit right next to people on a bus for 20 minutes and not talk to them. I'm not any better then the rest with that, but I'm trying to change. For some reason it seems to be easiest with really sketchy people and cute girls...

I butchered a deer.

I kind of want to go to eastern Asia for a month this summer with ELIC to teach English.

Oh by the way, I've said this already, but it's worth saying twice. It's important to know the world you live in. When you hear about something bad that's happening in some foreign country, like a flood or genocide or war, educate yourself on it more. You can take 20 minutes to do some research and you will probably sound like an expert to the majority of the people around you. Then you can pray. and maybe help others become knowledgeable about the world also.
And if you feel like you could give a little here are some websites of organizations that I think are legitimate:

compassion.com
kiva.org
savedarfur.org
redcross.org


Anyways,
Things here are great. I truly love the life that God has given me. It's beautiful here, I'm surrounded by lovely people, I'm learning awesome stuff... I'm actually kind of euphoric right now. It's weird.
I can think of plenty of things to complain about and definitely do sometimes, but right now I feel very aware of the fact that I'm alive. I can breath and do stuff like run, learn, cry, think, hurt, have relationships, love. I have food to eat, clean water and a heated place to live in. Whining should be illegal.

Even if I didn't have any of that I am convinced that neither life nor death nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate me from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Which (to quote Lennon... or one of those guys) is all you need.


Here are some things you could pray for:
The fundraising auction my program is putting on
That I would stay caught up on homework
North Korea (the president and the underground church)
Joseph Kony, if you don't know who he is you should research him
Lulu Juma Ngilenyi


"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
-Galileo Galilei-