I have to admit, when I first found out about Jarabacoa, I remember thinking how intimidating of a place it was. The Dominican Republic as a country stands at such an interesting spot in it’s history…
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A couple weekends ago, I took a trip back home to Gig Harbor to spend some quality time with my brother, Alec. A special bonus of my trip was visiting my mom’s 5th and 6th grade classroom.
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As Christians, we’re given an alternative way to think about how we inhabit time. There are two kinds of time in the New Testament Greek. Chronos is time as we typically understand it, time as duration: this happens, then this, then this.
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Patience, patience, patience. When it comes to pursuing goals, it is hard for me to be patient especially when I have this notion that running into any obstacles means that I have become a “failure” and that it will be harder to accomplish my goals. In the past two and a half years repeatedly I felt as if I was failing at school.
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I have always been someone who questions my purpose.Most of the time, whether it was a volunteer position or a job, I would start to question what I was doing and start looking for something new and what I thought was “better” a little before I had been there 2 years. I felt that I wasn’t doing “enough.”
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I spent two hours unclogging a toilet this week. When Monday rolled around I had an idea in my head of how the next few days would go. I had tasks to accomplish, and deadlines to meet, but then all of the sudden, the plan that I had set for the week, was thwarted by a horrific mess in the boys bathroom at the Hillyard YFC building.
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In early 2012 I met with someone I greatly admired, she was a school counselor at a local middle school and from what I knew of her, she was a world changer. I had just moved up to Spokane to follow my dream of attending a Spokane University in order to obtain my Masters in School Counseling.
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For most of my young adult life, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I wandered around from opportunity to opportunity knowing it wasn’t quite what I wanted.
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