It works, It works!

My internet phone is back up and running, folks! I'm so thankful for Fernando Hinojosa, our school IT specialist. He got it all fixed for me :) So, now I have wireless, my packet 8 phone, and all I'm waiting on is my cable. Am I really a missionary? The internet I can justify b/c of my school research, the phone was a present from my extended family so those things are easy to reconcile. But I struggled with cable. Then, I thought, I'll give it a shot for a year and see what I think :)
So, call me!

Isaiah 50:10

I woke up this morning and was in tears pretty quickly. I hate the emotional mess I am (and know I will be) during the first week of transition. Ever since college, the first week of separation has been a miniature version of hell for me. But there is one HUGE difference. Here, I have a God who walks beside me, shoulders the burden alongside me, and purposes all of it to make me more of his perfect ideal. So, in my tears I picked up a book on God's names and was determined to take at least one verse away with me for comfort. And I found Isaiah 50:10
Who among you fears the LORD
and obeys the word of his servant?
Let him who walks in the dark,
who has no light,
trust in the name of the LORD
and rely on his God.

I felt like one who had no light this morning. Why had I come back? How was I going to make it without my family back home and friends who were once the majority of my Bolivia? Where was I going to find the strength to get all of my stuff unpacked? It was such an encouragement to see that the Psalmist says we will have darkness. But when we do, we are to walk as if we have light - I don't have to see where I am going, because I see the one who does.