Hi it's misfitmom here. Just finished a full week of work and I'm not as pooped as last week. That's the good news. Alexandra send me her missionyear journal letter for the month. I thought this might be a good place to share some of it with you. In hopes that you might either pray for her or be encouraged by it to do similiar works for the LORD.

I want to be a vessel in which the Spirit can well up in me and overflow to all those WHO I come in contact with. I want to be a person who fights for justice for the oppressed and spends myself on behalf of the poor (Isaiah 58). Basically I want to be about my Father's business in all areas of my life. In order for that to happen, I am daily praying for less of me and so much more of the Lord!
Please pray for my team and me as we serve the Lord with visions in our minds and hearts. I would like to encourage you to expect God-sized opportunities in your own life. Certainly, you do not have to be "on the mission field" to have a ministry, so dream big about the ways in which you can serve the Lord in your own community!

Driven by the dream,

Alexandra


"Look at the nations and watch; be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told." Habakkuk 1:5

These are two of the pictures Alexandra sent with her last newsletter. She looks like she's having a ball. 

THANK YOU FOR READING THIS. I feel so much better today. Thank you for your prayers and your comforting words. This week has been better than the week before.

Just lost my blog what a drag. Just wanted to say thank you to Magz for your words of encourgement which is like manna in the desert. Thank you for being you!
Job update: It's getting better. Moved to the Health Station and now I'm seeing the student body which amounted to 10 patients today. It really made the day go by faster.
Thank GOD the blahhhhhhhhs pass.

Have you ever wondered what in the world will make you happy? What happens when you come up with a blank? Has the joy ever fizzled out of your life? Have you ever felt like you are just going through the motions of life? Where is the laughter? Where is the passion? Where is the fun? I pray this only a temporary emotional low.

I'm at school with my little patient. She's doing her speech therapy while I'm trying to used my time wisely. Feels funny being at work again since an absence of what feels close to a decade. Getting geared up in the morning. Feeling exhausted at the end of the day. Dealing with the mini series of life that go on in the workplace. Sometimes you pray for something, for change for instance then you get it. You reevaluate it and sometimes it's not what you wanted. Then I think what is it that I was really meant to do? What was I put on this earth for? What is really going to toot my horn?

I'm at school with my little patient. She's doing her speech therapy while I'm trying to used my time wisely. Feels funny being at work again since an absence of what feels close to a decade. Getting geared up in the morning. Feeling exhausted at the end of the day. Dealing with the mini series of life that go on in the workplace. Sometimes you pray for something, for change for instance then you get it. You reevaluate it and sometimes it's not what you wanted. Then I think what is it that I was really meant to do? What was I put on this earth for? What is really going to toot my horn?

Someone shared this with me and I'm going to share it with you for GOD'S Word is a blessing.
"But Zion said, 'The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.' Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.Your sons hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you. Lift up your eyes and look around; all your sons gather and come to you. As surely as I live,' declares the Lord, 'you will wear them all as ornaments; you will put them on like a bride.'" Isaiah 49:14-18
I have been praying about the tidal wave in Asia and have some prayers for repentence for the survivors. I've been thinking about Noah and his times. What was God's objective? Why did he bring the floods? What did He want from the people?
Let us pray that each and every person in Asia will turn to the living GOD and forsake any other gods, that they will repent, and belong to the body of Christ.
Today I start my first peds case and I'm very excited. Keep me in your prayers too for I want to do a good job and be a blessing.

Gosh it seems like a long time since I blogged anything. After that massive blog on Jan's heart cath I guess it left me somewhat dry.
But today is a new day. Yesterday I went for orientation for a new job. I've decided that I have too much free time and I am not using it to the best of my ability. I have been somewhat bored at times. Boredom gets one in trouble. So, I'm thinking about being a nurse again. A pediatric nurse doing private duty home healthcare through an agency. I have to go back today. I still have a couple of more days of orientation but hopefully I'll get there in the end. I want to feel as if I'm doing something that matters, something that counts, something that makes me feel significant. Do you think that's too much to ask?
I hope everyone has a happy and healthy New Year. Full of God's blessings and abundance.
I got an e-mail from Israel today from a Jewish believer who asks us to pray for Israel. Please pray that their blinders would be taken off and their hearts softened to who Jesus is and what GOD wants for His beloved people. Please join me in prayer for her and for them. Thank you!