Australia, Home, and God.

I've now been in Australia for 5 months.  Some days it feels like a lifetime and other days if feels like I just arrived.  I'm not gonna lie, I miss home, family, and my friends, a lot.  However, I know that God has called me here for a specific purpose, and I must stay focused, and be diligent in surrendering daily to the call that God has placed in my heart. To say that I have learned a couple things since I've been here would be a drastic understatement.  He is re-shaping me altogether, stretching me, pushing me to my limits, challenging me, teaching me about how He has divinely created me and gifted me to do His work.  At times I feel like what's the purpose if I know I'm just going home in September, but I trust that God has me here to shape me for things to come in my life and ministry.  I trust in His sovereignty, or at least I'm trying.  So when life here gets tough and I just wanna run home, I pray (and I ask that you do the same) that I will persevere and praise God for where He has me, and serve Him here and now with a heart of gladness.  After all I am living on the Sunshine Coast, possibly one of the most beautiful places in the world, who am I to be disgruntle about where life has taken me.

Well enough serious talk for one day lets talk about a few things I wish I had from home (just in case you want to help make these things appear at my door step)

• Taco Bell
• hot n spicy from mcdonalds (the dollar menu in general really)
• sweet tea
• mexican food (especially nachos fajitas from Mi Pueblo)
• Josh and Jacob Moseley
• BBQ
• Michael Gallup and all his beauty
• homemade biscuits 
• deer hunting
• chili
• Allison Demott and her domestic goodness
• my Gary Fisher and riding with Jacob
• cold weather
• my momma