blink

Sometimes you just blink and things can change. Sometimes it comes slowly (you know, like the good things to those who wait).  Sometimes i just get glimpses in between the blinks...of possibilities that may or may not ever come to fruition. In any case, I think my life right now is a little bit of a blink and a little bit blind... and i feel all sorts of craziness in those dark and light moments:

• I might have the opportunity to go to Slovenia and bring Multnomah students to run an English camp
• I might get to go to Columbia this summer to work with young girls who've been prostitutes. 
• I met John Perkins, a man who began to shape my thinking of justice and community development nearly 10 years ago. We got to talk for a bit and I may be traveling to Mississippi sometime to work with him!
• I got to go to a conference in Portland about justice and get stoked that there are like-minded and like-hearted people in my backyard...a city that  i think will be very influential in the christian community in the years to come. 
• I got some news from work this week that make we wonder why, where, who and when and makes me thankful, angry, sad and expectant. 
• I keep accepting that I want something badly, but that I might not really even want what i want if what i really want is what He wants...so i just don't know.
• I get to be on the intercession team for a NPO that a man from church started to work to bring an end to human trafficking and i'm stoked that this is the way i can be involved right now...and curious if there will be another way in the future.
• There is a glimmer of hope that my leadership students at Madison High School will choose to be leaders even if it won't come easy.