I think I have some pretty HUGE stuff happening next week.  Since, I am not blogging tomorrow, I thought I’d throw one up on Sunday night.  So let’s get started.  For one, I will be video-blogging my testimony over at Toby’s Blog, for his first installment of what he is calling “Testimony Tuesdays”  I look forward to see how God moves that Blog.  So go support him, check out my Testimony on Tuesday, and let us both know what you think.

I also really hope to delve deeper into my racism blog, and hopefully give more insight on that topic.  There are 100′s of things I want to write about, have discussions with you about, and even talk about.  I see HUGE things for me and this blog!  I hope you keep coming back, and leave me some comments, opinions and thoughts.

Talk to y’all soon!

So, instead of trying to describe what I saw, and choosing words wisely, I’ll just publish a few of the pictures.  I think this will best relay what it was really like. These pictures are all from the squatters community.

So.  I did it.  I left this wonderful country of ours….  and I loved it.  The freedom of electronics, (I didn’t take anything with me) the freedom from America.  I have SO much to write about, and even more work to catch up on.

We went to a squatter community.  I honestly thought I had seen poor.  As a matter of fact, a week and a half ago, I thought I had been poor.  I thought that my house meant I was the lowest of the low, and I spent the majority of my elementary days feeling sorry for myself.  I thought that I had it rough, because we had to go to a store and ask for a loaf of bread.  I thought I had it rough, because neighbors were buying us clothes.

I thought I had it rough.  Quite honestly, I am a humongous ass.  I was feeling sorry for myself.  Even when we got there, I felt like a jerk.  I was walking around, looking at people, feeling like I was relating to them.  I went there thinking, “I understand what they are going through, so this will be good for me”  I have never been more wrong.

These kids were so happy with what they had.  When I was their age, I was crying because I wasn’t wearing name brands.  I don’t know what else to say but, geez.  My eyes are wide open, and I have a feeling I may not have even seen the worst of it.  I really feel like there is something more that I haven’t seen.  Something more that I can do.  Something more that needs to be done.

My fiance writes a lot about injustice, and I don’t think I ever really got it.  I still don’t think I fully do.  I think I need to pray a little more before writing more.  But there is more to come.

And some time soon, I am going to attempt to show my sense of humor.  I really really am.  I am a funny person, I promise.

More to come and hopefully it may have more final thoughts than just blabbering.  and maybe more of a story.

So.  I have never left the country.  Mainly because I just have never made anywhere near enough money to even pay my rent, let alone, buy a plane ticket and a passport and just leave.

I sit and think about the gifts that God has bestowed upon me.  I mean, I have an amazingly wonderful beautiful fiance.  I have a decent enough job.  And now, I get to do something I have always wanted to.  Travel out of the country, with my best friend (See link above), and her father. Even better yet!  I get to go do work for God!  It’s amazing, but I am still nervous.  I have never flown over water, and I’m not a great swimmer.   I know that doesn’t really matter, but the scenario’s are endless.  But I digress.

I have never been on a trip like this before, so I don’t know what to expect.  I am praying that God will guide me, and move in me. 

I am not taking any form of electronic communication down there.  Just a journal, my Bible, and my copy of “Jesus For President” I will be spending a lot of time in some much needed prayer, Journaling, and The Word.  I hope to follow up with what is moved in me.  And I know there will be movement.

Please keep me in your prayers.  I really am a little nervous.

I might write one more time before I leave….. So.. be looking

Adios.