Overwhelmed with many things

Today was an interesting day.

I haven't updated in a while, but there has been a lot going on.  We have had so many amazing you people come through our site in the last couple of weeks.  I am overwhelmed with the presence of God that has been here these last few weeks.

I have been recently introduced to an AMAZING passage of scripture that I wish I would have known earlier in my life.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.  For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.  So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.  For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."

This passage of scripture has helped me in incredible ways the last few weeks.  Through some different challenges that I have faced these last few weeks I have found much comfort in this passage.  It gives me hope that even though there are rough times and bumps in the road that I can focus my time and energy on things that are more important.  I have wasted too much time and energy on things that do no matter, and on frustrations that are not important.  At times it feels like what we do here can go unnoticed, or unremembered.  But it gives me hope that even though we don't always see solid changes being made we are making a difference.

Tonight I was feeling overwhelmed with the presence of God in my life.  Each YouthWorks worker writes a few page note to the person who will be taking over their position the following summer.  At the very end we write a letter to the person.  I was writing my letter and just felt a crazy amount of love for this community!  I can't imagine myself anywhere else right now.  I can't believe that we only have one week left in this community!  I am ridiculously not ready to leave!  I have met so many incredible people in this place.  I am sad to leave relationships at Misión Betesda that I have made.  I am sad to leave friendships with community friends here.  I am sad to leave this city as a whole.  I have had such a wonderful experience and I will never forget it.  While writing this letter I realized how much I have grown this summer in some incredible ways!  I feel like a new person.  I feel confident in the person God has created me to be.  I feel confident in God's calling in my life.  My faith has grown tremendously and my reliance on God has also grown.

I wish that I was a better writer so that I could even begin to express the feelings that feel right now.  God is amazing and I love Him.  I love what he is doing in my life and what he is doing in the lives of the kids that he has brought here.  I am excited to have one more weeks at this place.  I can't wait to see how God will continue to work here and in the lives of the kids that will be coming here on Sunday!