Can I just say that my life is SO GOOD?! Which is surprising that I feel that way as I live in a third world country surrounded by poverty, hunger, and sickness. But praise God that is not what I see every day when I go to work. What I see is 44 beautiful little children that I get to play with and love on and bandage their cuts and scrapes. Two hundred more who I get to see at least eat one meal a day and who call me by name just to have me look their way. I get to hold children that I know need a hug. I get to have the peace of knowing I am doing what God made me to do. It is still difficult because I constantly fall short- especially when I try to do it on my own strength. And I get frustrated at dumb things, but then Stanley grabs me by the hand and all is good in the world again. Over the weekend I actually miss my kids!!! I look back on all the parts of my life before this and I see how beautifully God put it all together to prepare me for what I am doing now. Leading up to now I always had this feeling- I don't know if I can describe it- of having this type of life I wanted to live that didn't really fit where I was. So I kept waiting and waiting to get to live that way and I feel like I am actually doing it now! I still have a feeling of lots of things I wish I could be doing as well or things I wish I was doing better, but I don't have the guilt that I had before of not living the way I felt I was made to live. On top of that, all the small weird things about me that I thought would make life harder for me- fit perfectly into the life that I have here. Wow, how is it that God is THAT good?!?!?! Now the only major drawback is that I don't have the people I love so much around me everyday. But I have their support, and love, and prayers, what more could I ask for! Well that, and an occasional trip to get my hugs in!!! Thank you so much, all the people that are making it possible for me to do what I am doing. I can't express to you enough how incredible you are!!!