cat out of the bag

My little brother, Owen and my Mom

Pretty sure that I have about a million things to say. So I've decided to start with the most difficult one to share and get it over with in attempts at encouraging myself to just blog about everything and update all my followers and ministry partners on my life and ministry here. So here goes....

5 years ago my mom had a big tumor grow out of the muscle wall behind her heart. She had radiation and then surgery at MD Anderson in Houston and has been cancer free by the grace of God ever since. When I was home in August raising support for this upcoming year, I found out my mom's cancer was back. In September, we found out that it had spread. In October, she began chemo. First week of December, we found out that particular chemo was not working. My mom likes to quote Beth Moore when she says that God responds to our prayer requests with one of three possible responses: yes, not now and you've got to be kidding me. She says God is just saying not yet. Yesterday they started a different chemo. Most days I wrestle with where I should be- here in Mexico with the little orphans who i just love and who don't have moms or back in Florida closer to my own mom and my family.

In John 16:33, Jesus tells us that in this world we are going to have trouble. God has never said that everything is supposed to be super easy or painless. I know the God works all things together for the good of those who love him. Alright, that's enough of an update on that for now- for more info, inquire within.

Please join me in praying for direction, God's timing, and wisdom for my time. Also for my mom and my family and for this chemo to work. Please pray for my mom - who is without a doubt the toughest, strongest and most optimistic cancer patient ever - that she'd feel a peace about everything and feel beautiful bald.

Many blog entries coming soon

I realize that I haven't posted too much on my blog since August. I just wanted to apologize and announce that I will be blogging a lot in the next week and will explain or at least try to explain all that has been going on in my life, ministry, family, and life in general here in Mexico. So get excited and check back in a few days for potentially a lot of photos, updates, stories, prayer requests and my ramblings.

In other news- GO GATORS! SEC championships are the biggest deal ever <-- perhaps that was one of the first things I learned growing up as a Gator. Oh and like me and my dad say, "SEC over family." You could argue that my priorities are messed up. I'll take that. Don't judge me.