How can I forget.

    Have you ever thought about what the Lord has done for you in your life.  Even in just the past year.  It is so overwhelming.  I sit on my bed in my apartment in Gainesville just having finished Sunday dinner with my Georgia family, listening to the CD that my team made last year just before we scattered.  It is a CD of songs that spoke to us and songs we wrote and songs we learned.  It is full of memories.  Memories of what the Lord did in the past year for me.
    I was able to serve him in Africa.  That is not something that everyone can say.  He has just blessed me with so much.  Its amazing to think back to all the things in the past year. I start to think about how he has been with me. Thru the death of my uncle and how I wasn’t able to be with my family at that time but he gave me a new family in my team.  How the girls on my team aren’t just old teammates but they are my sisters and women of God that I know I can go to with anything and I will get loved on and surrounded with prayers and whatever else I need.  I think about all those days walking to Ithemba knowing that there was going to be 100 kids waiting for us to come and knowing that I couldn’t do it alone.  I needed more.  And you know what I always had what I needed to get thru a day.  The Lord was there all the time.  I think about our elephant blessing.  We wanted so bad to see them and he wanted to see us smile so he made it so that a whole herd came right out of the bush right at us.  LORD YOU ARE GOOD.  He blessed me with being able to keep my relationships at home while I was away.  I went home and I picked up right where I left off with my friends and family.  This summer he blessed me with the time to be with my friends and family.  I want to get a job and looked but I think he knew what he was doing not letting me find one.  I think he knew that I needed that summer to grow my relationship with my sister.  He even blessed me with a week of work so that I could have some income. And now he has blessed me by sending me down her to work in the office and be able to be pored into by the staff at AIM.  He has given me great teammates who all have something that I can learn from.  The Lord really has been good to me.  I know that I forget this.  I forget all the He has done for me. I forget what an awesome God he is and how he is always providing for me and blessing for me. 

So THANK YOU Lord for all you have done and given me this past year.  I am sorry that I am not more thankful.  You are an amazing God that continues to take care of me even when I don’t always deserve it.