Author: Adventures

There was a time when words flowed freely, which I have taken for granted.  And yet in those moments, I was keenly aware that the words that were pouring onto paper came to fast to be my own. The following was inspired by a man met in a town called Franz Josef.  He goes by the name Justin.   we went tramping round down the south Island  rode waves of christ church of a solid kind westward bound no longer means pacific sun rain came down as ice on the move was found It slid by oh so fast we almost missed its passenger a man behind a beard a smile sheltered from the...

These words are of grace. Yesterday I told God I did not want to lean on my own understanding.   So he took my mind and scrambled it.          He took my words.   Today I was coming to peace with having no words.   Then this happened.  We were invited to take part in a Hangi feast, a traditional Maori way of preparing food.  It is literally an earth oven.  Details are needless words right now.  After preparation in heaps of rain, the Hangi, as custom goes, is prayed over, before waiting out the next four hours it takes to cook....

So i guess it's time for me to actually post a blog… So a few days ago Hannah and I were hanging out with some of the volunteers at El Rancho and we ended up getting into a conversation about the Holocaust. It was interesting considering one of the volunteers is German. During our conversation I said that i would rather die in a gas chamber instead of the oven. Of course then I realized that the oven was only used to burn the already dead bodies. Anyways I was cracking jokes about how I would tell Hitler to calm down and that I wasn't about to be thrown into and oven or...

Recently the Lord has been revealing the importance of the heart to me.  The heart gets overlooked so often and I am just slowly realizing how often I overlook my own heart.  It is so easy to just think or speak with our mouths without our hearts.  One morning during “quiet time” God just placed Psalm 27 right in front of me.  This scripture literally became so real to me as I just read over and over again the words.  In verse 8 it reads “When You said, ‘Seek My face,’ my HEART said to You, ‘Your face, Lord, I will...

So its been almost a month here in New Zealand and I cannot even begin to explain the ways the Lord has stretched me, pulled me, loved on me and blessed me.  I've wrestled with what to share with you guys and the Lord has continued to lay this on my heart to share.  I have been growing and learning the gift God has blessed me with of visions.  The Lord has shown me so much through the Holy Spirit and one in particular He has placed on my heart to share.  It was the last night of training camp and during worship I was on my knees before my Maker.  I began to...

Hello Friends and Family! It has now been about 3 weeks into our trip and can I say God is moving mightily! One thing God has been showing me is that I need Him to "rain/reign" in my life, hence the title Let It Rain.  This has been our team slogan since training camp and I was asked the question, what does Let It Rain, mean to me? I prayed about it, that God would show me what exactly it means, to me. As we all know, it rains a lot in New Zealand, especially this time of year! It is also really really cold. I began to get frustrated because I was so cold every day and I was...