Chronic Ramblin' FeverI got music on the stereo

Wild flowers on the passing road

I know this out of the way place

You can disappear without a trace

Leave the world behind if only for awhile

You could just get rollin'

See the windin' road unfoldin

Feeling better with every passing mile

Even the getting there makes me smile

Roger Creager I've never been good at keeping directions

And I believe schedules are one of life's biggest infections

I gotta be free

I'd rather have nothin

Than a whole lot of something

That don't fit the life that I lead

Commitments and strings and all that wealth brings

Just must be for some other breed

Cause life ain't about all the worries and doubts

That comes with the heartaches and greed

And I'd rather have nothing

Than a whole lot of something I don't need

Ty EnglandEverybody's gotta get away sometime

forget about yourself for awhile

Sometimes you've got to grab your world by your own two hands

Set it spinning off on a course all your own

Pat Green

I'm gonna find that long stretch of highway

No one knows my name

Where as long as the sky just goes on

And its never the same

A modern day drifter don't ever complain

Dierks BentleyBut that open road starts callin' me

There's something o're the hill that I gotta see

Sometimes its hard but you gotta understand

When the Lord made me he made a ramblin' woman

Let me travel this land from mountains to the sea

Cause that's the life I believe He meant for me

Hank Williams I'm gonna break my rusty cage and RUN!

Johnny Cash

ROGER CREAGER take 3

I got the guns!! Ok I can't look mean I was laughing but he played along!

I love Allen (the keyboard, slide guitar, accordian, washboard player)

He's so sweet and he's gonna teach me the washboard.

MY LABOR DAY WEEKEND THUS FAR!!

Gotta Work, Gotta Work!

Professor tried to make me cry yesterday!

Gotta Work, Gotta WorkHumm, Riley Country Historical Museum...

Museum of the History of Riley County
They had some old minnow buckets in there.

I wonder if our minnow buckets are worth anything?

I bet our old saining net and fly rods and Poppi's old lures could make a pretty cool display.

I wonder what the fish are biting on down at Kahola
I could make it down there in an hour
Have I bought a Kansas Fishing License since I've been back
How much do they cost here?
Maybe I should just get a lifetime license.
Well I don't know where I'll go after this year.

Thats it I'm going fishing tomorrow.
Anyone want to go?

I forgot how much I enjoy drawing when I'm not being graded.

Mark 10:29-30
Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel's sake, but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.


It's funny, sometimes when God wants you to know something, He makes it pretty hard to miss. This verse was laid out before me three times last week. First, it was in a sermon I listened to. Then Friday some staff that are taking time off to go to Grad school talked about their experience in Guatemala and this was one of the verses they talked about. The third time it was in a different fashion.

A friend of mine got married this weekend. And by friend I mean the one from the relationship that I had to sacrifice for me to fully follow Jesus. The one that broke my heart, knocked me off my block. It reminded me of how God's plans are always best. If we hadn't have split, I wouldn't have gone to Architecture school. I wouldn't be here at eMi. I would have missed out on a multitude of blessings that I would have never imagined. If I had gotten what I wanted at that time I have no clue where I'd be now or what all I would have missed out on.

Well I have really been stumped about what to say about my trip to Haiti. It was like pulling teeth writting my newsletter. It was the antithesis of my Costa Rica trip, but it was still wonderful. They were two completely different experiences and it just made me want to serve full time even more. The people were so passionate about our Lord, it blew me away. Again the words escape me so I will quit my attempt to express myself.

Isaiah 55:8-9

For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD.

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways

And My thoughts than your thoughts."

It's really been hitting me that I am not in control, I don't always know what God is doing, ok I rarely do. God is doing some amazing things right now that we cannot yet see. For instance all of my ministers back home are stepping down. There are no disagreements, no secrets, no indiscressions. The men are remaining at our church to serve as laymen. Why has God laid it upon their hearts to step down, we can only wait in anticipation.
As for myself I have even less of an iota of what lays ahead of me. By the grace of God I will finish my 8th and final year of college next year. Beyond that I want to be free to go as the Lord pleases. Recently I read a quote from J. Oswald Sanders, "Instead of planning on staying and being willing to go - plan on going and be willing to stay." I feel as though that is were I am at, and I am excited.
I leave for Haiti in a week and a half and I cannot wait to see what God will reveal of Himself this time. Its hard for me to believe that He is sending me. Who am I? Who am I to get to serve my Lord? Who am I to receive someones tithing? Who am I to get to have such an adventure with the Creator of all things? Why would He chose to send some bumpkin from po-dunk Kansas?

I just listened to a most wonderful sermon by John Piper. I'd suggest it to any of you ladies out there.

http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Sermons/ByDate/2007/2088_The_Beautiful_Faith_of_Fearless_Submission/

Being Known
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it – the fact that he knows me. I am graven on the palms of his hands. I am never out of his mind. I know him because he first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, one who loves me; and there is no moment when his eye is off me, o r his attention distracted from me, and no moment, therefore, when his care falters.
This is momentous knowledge. There is unspeakable comfort – the sort of comfort that energizes, be it said, not enervates – in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good. There is tremendous relief in knowing that his love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worse about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination to bless me.
There is, certainly, great cause for humility in the thought that he sees all the twisted things about me that my fellow humans do not see (and am I glad!), and that he sees more corruption in me than that which I see in myself (which, in all conscience, is enough). There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, he wants me as his friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given his Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose.
Knowing God – J.I. Packer

PSALM 37

1Do not fret because of evildoers,
Be not envious toward wrongdoers.
2For they will wither quickly like the grass
And fade like the green herb.
3Trust in the LORD and do good;
Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
4Delight yourself in the LORD;
And He will give you the desires of your heart.
5Commit your way to the LORD,
Trust also in Him, and He will do it.
6He will bring forth your righteousness as the light
And your judgment as the noonday.
7Rest in the LORD and wait patiently for Him;
Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.
8Cease from anger and forsake wrath;
Do not fret; it leads only to evildoing.
11But the humble will inherit the land
And will delight themselves in abundant prosperity.
16Better is the little of the righteous
Than the abundance of many wicked.
17For the arms of the wicked will be broken,
But the LORD sustains the righteous.
18The LORD knows the days of the blameless,
And their inheritance will be forever.
19They will not be ashamed in the time of evil,
And in the days of famine they will have abundance.
21The wicked borrows and does not pay back,
But the righteous is gracious and gives.
22For those blessed by Him will inherit the land,
But those cursed by Him will be cut off.
23The steps of a man are established by the LORD,
And He delights in his way.
24When he falls, he will not be hurled headlong,
Because the LORD is the One who holds his hand.
25I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
Or his descendants begging bread.
26All day long he is gracious and lends,
And his descendants are a blessing.
27Depart from evil and do good,
So you will abide forever.
28For the LORD loves justice
And does not forsake His godly ones;
They are preserved forever,
But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.
29The righteous will inherit the land
And dwell in it forever.
30The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,
And his tongue speaks justice.
31The law of his God is in his heart;
His steps do not slip.
34Wait for the LORD and keep His way,
And He will exalt you to inherit the land;
When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.
39But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD;
He is their strength in time of trouble.
40The LORD helps them and delivers them;
He delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
Because they take refuge in Him.

BIRTHDAY / BABY WEEKENDMy new baby cousin Brooke
Paul and Javen have grown so much in the two months I've been gone. AND Paul became a big brother on March 5. Luca was born at 12:30 and he's in the dog house with me cause he came after I left.

Psalm 139:5-6
You have enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it. El Jardin Sagrado - Orosi Valley - Costa Rica
Well I just spent the most God soaked weeks in Costa Rica. God orchestrated everything perfectly as only He can. There is so much to say, that even if I tried here it would be too much. But it short, the team and missionaries were most amazing, an instant family, I made "tico" brothers that I will love forever, the site was beautiful, the people were the most loving most hospitible that I've ever encountered. We got our job done early. I got to play soccer every day. I've never felt the love of God more fully than the past two weeks. My brain is spinning and that is never a good thing. If you want to know more I'll be sending out a newsletter soon, or you could just call me.