my journey contines

… about blogging. how many times have i said i’d start that up again? hahaha. i guess i don’t feel like i have that much of a community yet (it’s slowly growing) here, and so i haven’t feel connected. but i do enjoy blogging. so maybe it’s time to give it ago, again. take, what is it now… 7? hahaha

thanks for reading.
shannon

what have i in this life, but the love in your eyes. this empty world will one day fade… only your truth will remain. Jesus all I have is you. You’re the hope I’m holding to. I am weak but still my faith rests in you. As the heavens o’er the skies, it’s your hand that bore my life. And you’re love will lead me on… when all else is gone.

does it really? because i’ve been listening to music for days and i’m not feeling better.

i know that i really enjoy blogging. it’s a way of processing my thoughts, chewing through issues and ya – processing stuff. i don’t have the same network that i once did, so i have no idea what my readers will be like or if they are still there – but i pick up my electronic pen and yet again, start writing “aloud”.

what else can you do when you have nobody to talk to? there’s no other option but to think “aloud”, if for nothing more than to give yourself the satisfaction that you’ve spoken aloud the thoughts of within.

i’m trying to process so many thoughts, so many challenges, so much has happened in the last 5 years…. and anybody could read that and say “yea, um, that’s called life” which sure, it is. but it’s been a lot that hasn’t seemed to be processed as of yet. and i need to find a way, and outlet, of doing that soon.

God is constant and when I feel there is nobody else there to listen, I know that He is there. He’s always been there even when I wasn’t looking to talk to Him. this morning i woke up and all i could say was “Jesus take my day. Jesus please take my day.”

just in case we aren’t linked on facebook (hahaha)
here are some pics of my trip in no particular order.

I’m not a fan of really early mornings. However, when it’s to get ready and go to a place that I love I take exception. However I’ve never gone to a destination by taking 3 different flights. This is somewhat annoying. In the end it will pay off. hahaha…

Above the clouds

I translated this from an article in the Nicaraguan paper, La Prensa. Written by Sergio Leon C., in Bluefields.

If you’d like to see the link, click here: http://www.laprensa.com.ni/archivo/2009/marzo/02/noticias/regionales/314708.shtml

In English:
The Naval Force of the Nicaraguan Army captured in the vicinity of Punta Gorda, Bluefields, Región Autónoma Atlántico Sur (RAAS), 50 African and Asian illegal immigrants after they were abandoned by suspected Colombian coyotes.

the itch is scratched. i’m going back for a week of my vacation. no i didn’t win the lottery. i just got an amazing flight deal which cost me seriously next to nothing. yay. por fin!!

reggaeton. taxi drivers. bugs (not so much). markets. bachata. maybe bus? hahaha. most of all friends. heat. other – the world i had this love/hate relationship with. i’m sure it will be really different. most of the foreignors i knew aren’t there anymore. a few – yea. but i’ll mostly be with my nica friends. a lot changes in a year, right?

i can’t wait.

on the home front here, work is really picking up and starting to get some traction. things are moving ahead and there is no shortage of work.

i found a church – which is GREAT. so i’m starting to get plugged in. social life is still a little lacking – it’s weird moving to the suburbs, when you don’t know people. social life is going so much slower than, ever, in my life. and being the social butterfly that i am – that’s kinda hard.

anyways. that’s my update. oh, plus i’ll be seeing some grad school friends towards the end of March. great month. then my brother is getting married. wow. so much excitement.

thanks for reading
shannon

Seeing as it’s Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d put up something related to “love”.

A camp counsellor gave me this one summer. I was about 14 and she told me it wouldn’t mean much to me then, but that I should keep it because one day I would really appreciate it. I do.

*A Prayer For Love*
Author Unknown

Everyone longs to give himself to someone,
To have a deep soul relationship with another,
To be loved thoroughly and exclusively,
But God to a Christian, says,
“No, not until you are satisfied, fulfilled,
and content with being loved by Me alone.
Until giving yourself totally unto Me,
To have a intensely personal and unique
relationship with Me alone,
Discovering that only in Me is your
satisfaction to be found, will you be
capable of the perfect human relationship
that I have planned for you,
you will never be united with Me;
Stop planning,
Stop wishing and allow me to give you the
most thrilling plan existing – one that you
cannot imagine.
I want you to have the best.
Please allow me to give it to you.
You just keep watching me,
Expecting the greatest things.
Keep experiencing the satisfaction that I am.
Keep listening and learning the things I tell you.
You just wait, that’s all.
Don’t be anxious.
Don’t look at the things you want.
You just keep looking off and up to me or
You’ll miss what I want to show you.
And when you are ready,
I’ll surprise you with a love far more
wonderful than you could dream of.
You see, until you are ready
(I am working at this moment to have both
of you ready at the same time),
Until you are both satisfied exclusively with
Me and the life I have prepared for you,
You will not be able to experience the love
that exemplifies your relationship with Me,
and this perfect love.
And dear one,
I want you to have the most wonderful love
I want you to see in the flesh a picture
of your relationship with Me.
And to enjoy materially and concretely the
everlasting union of beauty, perfection, and
love that I offer you with Myself.”