Here and There and Everywhere

Aloha! So I've been pondering what the rest of this year is going to look like for me. It's been an amazing and crazy last year with many changes, and so at least that will probably be consistent. Change. I'll just share what my thoughts are as well as some things I desire, and we'll see what happens. God is so good, and His agenda and direction is much better than mine. You probably know my tendency to be indecisive, and other weaknesses, so its cool to see how the Lord can use that for the better.

I got an email from IHOP, and my acceptance packet for the internship at the International House of Prayer will be arriving soon. So, I will be spending 3 months in the fall in Kansas City, and I am stoked! It looks like I will be returning to the mainland in August with the Monroy family to help with the kids in San Francisco since David Monroy is speaking at a conference there. I will bus it over to Utah, see my family for while in St. George and head over to Oklahoma to see my mom and family there before heading up to KC.

There is an option to stay at IHOP for another 3 months after this internship, but one step at a time. This round ends in December and then I would love to road trip to see friends, including a trip up to Minnesota, then up to Canada to visit Danielle. Lord willing, it will be awesome. Eh. :)

As for what happens after that, I would like to return to Hawaii.

In the roughed outline of the next 5 years or so, I hope to include a year long trip around the world that is intentional in nature. Either with missions or service or culture sharing or something and then the touristy travel things as bonus. I want to go scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef, return to New Zealand, visit Fiji and other islands, go to Java n' hear a gamelan orchestra, then India, loop Africa do some African drumming/dance, up to Europe to visit a few friends in Holland and see Great Britain, over to south America learn some Spanish and back up to the states. Ya that sounds good to me. Anyone wanna come with me? I know Danielle and Kelsey, ya'll have your passports ready. :)

I hope to have improved music skills, as I'll take my uke, and I'd love to do a marathon on every continent. (except Antarctica. I'm not into trying to outrun polar bears).

So there is where I think I'm headed. Of course I may look back at this post some day and laugh, but its fun to ponder. What is trippy to think is that God already knows where I'll be and when.

"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Ephesians 2:10

"From one man he made every nation of men, that ehy should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'" Acts 17:26

Aloha :)