Somehow We Keep Marchin On: part 1

I'm not gonna lie, the whole time during DTS I didn’t really appreciate our theme song, (Marchin On by OneRepublic.) I was like "What does this song even have to do with anything?!?! It’s probably just Mel’s (the school leader) favorite song and she wants us all to like it too...." I was like really cynical about this song for no good reason. Also I had completely forgotten about it until today.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0dTI-4FcQ here it is, you should listen to it :] 

This morning I dragged my two feet out of my bed after another sleepless night, and got ready for another day of regret, heartache, bitterness, frustration, and confusion at God.  Hahaha I zombeed my way to the living room, and as I walked I looked at my feet.

"Right, Right, Right, Right, Left. 

Oh, for this dance we move with each other

There aint no other step

Than one foot

Right in front of the other"

 …started flowing through my melon.

For the first time in what feels like months, but really only a few days, I lifted my head up and started dancing/ marchin on to a revived beat... yep.... right here in my living room.  I feel like I just took a shower in Holy Water!! 

Now I am wondering if this song was specifically chosen for me, because God knew that all of my dreadful outreach business was gonna happen.  

So today, I am Marchin On. I am choosing to March on, which is something new. One foot right in front of the other :] (I miss you guys so much more than you can even imagine. It’s hard to keep marchin on when you feel like you are doing it alone.  But I bet that we are marchin on together, just on two different continents :] which isn’t so far I suppose.)  

Ok, did you know that they make banana tofu? Neither did I.  The fourth week of DTS, Kyle and I bought some at Winco.  (Kyle James Watanabe, a Norwegian Japanese ywamer, who is going to Cambodia for 2.5 years to share Gods love. Yeah, we are friends.)  One morning we used it to make Banana Tofu Pancakes, and the next morning we made Chocolate Banana Tofu Pudding.

I know what you’re thinking…. “Eww. Vegetarians….” But I’m not gonna lie,

 Both dishes were so good!

Maybe it just takes a vegetarian to appreciate the art of tofu. Wait a second….. Kyle isn’t even a vegetarian! He just appreciates fine food, so there’s something…..

So, here is a fun fact for you: there were about 30 girls in my dorm, with three toilets, three showers, and four sinks….. for some reason this never posed a problem, ever.   Go God!

The Prayer Chapel was a place of peace, a place to get away from the bustle of classes, distractions, and people and seek God. Every night there was optional worship, and group prayer.  There were regulars every night, Roman, Gaila, Darin, Addy, and Bebo.

 This one time!! I was skipping in the cafeteria and I tripped on a table, breaking my toe in the process.  We tried taping it, but it still hurt very much!  Roman was trying to get me to go up to the Prayer chapel that night so that whoever was up there could pray over me, and ask God for healing.  I didn’t think it would work, because broken toes are pretty tough to heal…..

haha… I guess I kinda forgot that we were talking about the creator of the universe.

I went and they prayed over me, touching my toe and asking God to soften my heart and accept His healing. So about this time, my toe was hurting pretty bad, and then all of the sudden it just stopped.  I got up and walked around…..

 I ran around…..

I danced around!!!

I took the tape off, it looked totally normal again! It didn’t hurt, and where it had been bent and crunched in, it was straight, and healed!!

God doesn’t do that kind of stuff……. Yes He does!

One of the programs that was running during my DTS was called Project Revelation, or Pro Rev. There were three students in it, Lusiano, Anna and Kyle. They are in training to go live long term in unreached countries in order to make the name of Jesus known. I am praying about doing this after my next DTS.

Lusiano, 29, is going to India and Thailand to open a dance school and use that as his ministry.

Anna,19, is going to Mali Africa to help rebuild a community, and in the process give the persecuted women worth by creating jobs for them.

And I already mentioned Kyle, 19. He is going to Cambodia to work on the YWAM base there, learn the language, and start working with the children and young adults, teaching a drumming school as his ministry.

I had the honor of getting to know these guys and girl. They are my good friends, probably the closest, and they have inspired me to be the best that I can, and daily seek God with everything I have. I can see Jesus in them, to be sure.