Busy

Usually life in Montana has been marked by unemployment, boredom and only the occasional social function. The Moving Home '05 episode has, however, been quite different. And BLESS GOD for the change of pace. Shortly after getting back to Montana I got a bi-weekly job cleaning a house, then I got work through the temp agency, then I got scheduled in for another house, and now I spend around 25-30 hours a week cleaning at the Barn. Poof! The Julie's unemployment problem in Montana has been rededied in record time! Aside from that, my last run of 12 months at home finally paid off socially because this time I have friends to come home to. After high school there was about one (i love you amber!) person I would call during the times when I lived here. This time I leached off by brother's social circle to get back in the swing of things (which worked quite fairly since I introduced him to all these people when he moved home last year) and now my cell phone actually rings from time to time.
All this to say it has been a couple of weeks - and that is a very good thing. I miss my friends around the world and the country, but I am blessed by the Lord's goodness to me in making this season at home a happy one. There is a good chance this will be the last significant amount of time I will be spending here in Montana and that makes it even more important that I enjoy it to the fullest. I'm just hoping that the working all the time won't eventually overwhelm me. Looking forward to a vacation always makes it easier to work a lot and not think about it, but after this coming week in Denver (yea!) and a few days in Idaho in May I will be all work for pretty much the rest of the summer.
Right, my last long season in Montana because? I've been praying about it a lot over the last two months and I think that God has given me the green light for going into missions fulltime! I don't know for how many years right now, I'll just take it one at a time, but it's a minimum one year commitment to start just about anywhere. Still sorting out the details and praying for more confirmation, but I am really just sitting back in awe of how much God has changed my heart in the last two years. While I was sharing at Bible study a few weeks ago it occured to me that "God made a missionary out of me, with out my even knowing it." There is such an incredible need in this world for the love of God, I can hardly wait to spend all my time working towards making it available to people who haven't even heard.
Prayer for me, if you want to, can be in the area of raising finances. It's a really difficult, humbling and faith building process to ask people to support the vision God has given you with their finances. Pray that I can communicate the heart of God toward missions to people who haven't caught the vision yet, and also that I will be dilgent and brave in contacting the people God has told me to. Ugh, it's scary...but the great thing is that God has already changed my heart toward this so much and given me peace for the process.
There it is, the promised post about what's REALLY going on in my life these days. It may have come out a little random, but hopefully we'll all gain clarity as the season moves on. I'm going to Denver in two days, so I should have some funny stories to post soon enough.