Blah, Blah, Blog

So, it's been a few days since my last blog, with good reason. There's very little to blog about presently. I had Saturday off, so I went on an adventure around Oakland... actually I left my cell phone charger at our other housing site (Harbor House), so I needed to walk over there and get it. So, one of my roommates and I decided to make an epic adventure of it. We left the house around 2:30 PM and didn't arrive back home until almost 9:00 PM. Harbor House is 2.1 miles away from BACC, and then we also decided it would be super fun to walk around Lake Merritt... so we did. ALL THE WAY AROUND: 3 miles, to be exact. So, during the course of a day, we walked about 6-7 miles... but it was a lot of fun. I learned how to play cribbage, roommate and I rented a couple of movies (gotta love Redbox!) and I had an awesome day taking pictures and enjoying God's beautiful nature, smack dab in the middle of Oakland, CA.

Today, I am waiting in eager anticipation of my next, and final group. It's kind of bittersweet. I'm stoked to go home and see my cats, my family, my friends... but I'm also sad to leave this life, San Francisco, Oakland, my new friends, behind. One question I asked last week, and a question that I like asking people because it's hard, is: If you could describe yourself in one word, what would it be? Right now my answer would be "searching". I'm in the midst of an awesome and terrifying time of my life. I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing, or where I'm supposed to be doing it... I don't know what my ministry for the kingdom is supposed to look like... but I do know this: right now, for the moment: I'm right where I'm supposed to be. And that's how I like it. It's nice to know that amidst the uncertainty of life, one this is certain: my God is in control, and little by little He's revealing little things about Himself, and myself to me. It's like one of those pictures in a picture, where the little individual pictures make up a bigger picture of Mickey Mouse or something like that. Right now I'm seeing bits and pieces of the smaller pictures, but I don't know what the bigger picture is yet... but that's okay. I'm learning. And I'm terribly grateful to a God who is insanely patient with me through it all.