Going back

Well it has been a long time since I last posted. As you all know I have been trying to figure out if Slovakia is where God wants me to be. This is still unclear to me, but I will be going there for the summer again to lead a team through the camps. I will be sending out letters soon about this. I am hoping that this summer might provide a little more clarity about the prospect of full time ministry there. Right now I am trying to spend time with God getting to know Him better. There are two things that I have been learning lately. One is that God is more concerned about us being in relationship and getting to know Him better, than what we are doing for Him. So often in life I think I get wrapped up in the doing and forget the simple truth of just living in Him no matter what I do. Therefore I am not worrying about what I am supposed to do whether stay or go to Slovakia. I am spending time getting to know God better and in that I know that God will lead me where He wants me. Otherwise I focus too much on tasks and not enough on my Savior! I also have been learning an idea that was taught at this year's passion by Andy Stanley. The idea is similar to what I wrote before. We often try to figure out what we should do before we figure out who we want to be. Especially in America I think we aspire to be great Business people, Athletes, Teachers, etc. And though these are great things they mean nothing and lead only to failure if we do it without knowing who we want to be and who God wants us to be. Andy Stanley said this is the problem with successful people failing morally, their talent excedes their capability to make good decisions. In essence they decide what they want to do before they decide who they want to be. I am therefore deciding who I want to be and spending time with God before I decide where I want to go and what I want to do. Please pray for me in this endeavor.