Thursday, September 09, 2004
still going to cr
last night i had a call from a friend i hadn't seen in years. i had sent her an email telling her i was going to costa rica for a year. she very seriously told me i needed to contact a counsellor because i was displaying psychotic, obsessive / compulsive, addictive behaviour. she said that religion could be as bad a drug as heroin and cause people to think and act irrationally. ok so this move may not be right for everyone but God has put it on my heart to follow Him so i will. she pointed out that the words i had used were not my words but someone else's. i used another's words because i don't articulate well. i love God from the deepest part of my being and i want to serve Him wherever / however He wants to use me according to His will. she couldn't shake my faith and sadly i couldn't dent her convictions.
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i envy you teri. to know so completely where God is calling you to be.
or maybe God calls us all the same and i just envy the way you have opened your heart to hear.
Rose
and being there that long you WILL find hardship, it WILL NOT be always be easy
i can say without a doubt that my trip to Costa Rica was a life changing experience, but it wasn't a life changing experiecne because i had the best time of my life.. i did not have the best time of my life, it was a struggle. but i'd do it all over again. it was hard, but that's why i grew. and i can say that there where shitty days, i did not escape from the pain i had living in canada... i only had more time to deal with that pain and nowhere to run.. so i had no choice but to face myself
it wasn't all fun, it wasn't all happy, it wasn't all easy
but like i said, i'd do it all again
and you hear that going into a different culture is hard thing... IT IS! but i'll tell you right now, i had more of a culture shock coming back home then going down to costa rica...
be prepared for an huge emotional roller coaster
brander and susy - what you are saying is so true. amen to that.
i'm going to cr with joy in my heart following a desire that God has put on my heart. when susy went for 8 months 2 years ago i thought it was such an amazing opportunity and wished i could go. i never thought i would be able to because i had too many responsibilities and commitments. now i don't and i can see how God has brought it all together to bless me with this opportunity. i'm not running away from any painful experiences or situations here so i don't expect any to plague me in cr. if i encounter hardship it will be what God will use to transform me, to grow into the person He wants me to be. with each trip to cr i have come closer to God. He has been changing me so much in the last few years, beyond my imagination, i can't imagine what He might have in store for me in cr this time. i spent more time in the Word in august than i've had the opportunity to here in a long time. yup the culture shock will be returning to canada. you've seen the emotional wreck i am when i come back. each year it's been harder to come back so it will only be through the grace of God that i will escape a very dark season a year from now.
i love you all for your concern.
That's not to say that the culture you will experience after your "honeymoon stage" in costa rica will be a breaze... it will be tough as well
but i do think you will enjoy your time there, and will benifit greatly
so i just have to say:
Dios te bendiga en tus obras y en tu camino, es una cosa tan maravilloso que te estas enamorada con Dios y que tus sueños son para hacer las cosa para Dios y solo para Dios. cuidate y vaya con Dios
gracias amiga. te amo mucho.
hmm, does that basically say:
"God bless you in your work and in your walk. It's so awesome that you are in love with god and that your dreams are to work with god and be one with god. Go with god"
hmm, it was getting tricky at the end. I wasn't too sure what it was supposed to say. that suenos got me too, i figured sleepy but that didn't make much sense. I had to look up some words and let altavista give me what it thought some portions said. some i didn't believe so i went with my gut feeling.
cheater...usin altavista... cheater :-)
you know those words... well at least most of them
and you did get the first part it;s just the last part is a little off
it says:
God bless you in your work and in your walk, it's so awesome that you are in love with God and that your dreams are to do things for God and only for God. Be careful and go with God.
i was just thinking of something else to maybe warn you about,becauase i'm not sure if you know about it... i wouldn't say it's a canadian culture thing..
but just so you know, especially if you're talking to costa rican guys, NEVER lick or bite your lips
if you do the guy will think that you want to kiss them... Danny told me that one... so i figured i'd see if there was any truth to it... and oh yeah it's true..
same goes if the guy is talking to you, and he's biting o licking his lips... beware! he's not just flirting
:-)
uh oh - i do that all the time when i'm away from home cuz i left my chapstick at the house. i'll have to be careful.
uh oh - i do that all the time when i'm away from home cuz i left my chapstick at the house. i'll have to be careful.
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