First steps

Just to update you all on my leg. I am doing good and started WALKING yesterday!!! Yes, I am crutch free. The doctor looked at my leg and sayed I was healing well. The break on the front of the leg is healed and the screw in my ankle is not visible at all, which means the bone is doing well. The break on the back of my leg is still healing and will take a bit longer.

I was a little scared to take my first few steps without crutches but by the second day I was ready to walk everywhere. Though I do not need to push it and those of you who know how stubborn I am...no worries, I am being careful and trying not to rush anything. Usually after a half day if that I am ready to call it quits. I get pretty tired and can feel my muscle in my calf yelling at me. I am still in a huge cast with a boot to help me to be stable while walking. I will go back to the doctor in two weeks to see if I can get in something less restrictive or not.

Thank you all for your prayers, phone calls, visits, cards and emails.

Till next time.......

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My website has been updated people! I know it's about time...I finally got my computer back and am slowly but surely getting it up and running. If you keep up with this please email me with your email address. When my computer crashed I lost ALL my data on my harddrive including your email addresses (hence the last email update was in September).

Enjoy the new pictures, journals, biography, and blogs....

I hope to hear from you all.

Home for Christmas

This year God opened up some doors to help send 10 Slovak collage students to the states to attend Passion 06 in Nashville, TN. WOW!!! In this picture is the girls along with some of us that have been working along side of them in Slovakia and here in the states to make their stay here that much better. If you would like to read more about these girls and follow them on this journey you can go to www.journey2passion.org . What an amazing experience for them. Please continue to pray for them and their time here and that the Lord would speak to them in might ways.

God's purpose

I have been home in the states for a while now and still trying to figure out what God's purpose in sending me home was. I know God's plans our bigger than any of ours and I also know that it is his plans that prevail and not ours. Since I have been home I have got to spend some time with my family and friends and even have had some wonderful conversations that would not have happened if I would not have been here.

I mentioned before about how much has changed since I have been home but what I have come to realize is that nothing here has changed...I am the one that has changed. After adjusting and living life in Slovakia then returning here to the states has been difficult for me. I was warned about reverse culture shock and now I understand. Coming home I felt like I was displaced...I know this will always be home for me but after being overseas and really adapting and establishing a life in Slovakia I have felt my home there and now being back here I don't feel so "comfotable" here. Through this I am realizing that for the rest of my life I will always be homesick in someway. I have poured my heart into the families in Slovakia just as I have my family here in the states...there is now pieces of me spread out all over the world and I will forever be homesick where ever I am at. At first I started to feel bad then realized that I am right where God wants me, "...to be an alien of this world." Although scary and comforting at the same time, I know that I am where God wants me and that to me is home.