Great News; Let's Hope For Some More

After my last post I received some encouraging responses almost immediately about my possible return. In fact I received enough of a response that I'm not going to be referring to it as a possible return anymore. I'm going to be referring to it as my return to the Philippines for a second school year.

The Lord answers prayers at the perfect time. I very much feel like the Lord has confirmed my suspicion that I should return for another school year by showing that he will continue to raise the support. When I got all this good news Isaiah 12:1-2 immediately flashed through my mind:

1 In that day you will say:

“I will praise you, LORD.
Although you were angry with me,
your anger has turned away
and you have comforted me.
2 Surely God is my salvation;
I will trust and not be afraid.
The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense;
he has become my salvation.
Just so you are aware, one church has already stepped up and said that they will provide a month of support for next school year, which is fantastic. That's one, we need eleven more through any possible combination of donors. Please prayerfully consider being a part of this mission.

One of the things that I decided to do recently was to read the Old Testament more and I'm currently sojourning through the Prophets. I've been very surprised with how much things resonate with me as I read them. Certainly that above passage in Isaiah was one that just made my heart shout.

Things are winding up here for this school year, this week is the final week of classes and tests are next week. I've even got two of my three tests written and I'm close to finishing the third. I'm looking forward to finishing this semester; everything has been great but those 6:45 AM devotions are getting to me.

Let us all celebrate the return of the "Filipino Englishing" section, something that has been conspicuously absent from this blog for far too long. There have been some good ones lately, like "translationing" but the best by far was one of my students who wished to jokingly refer to another student as untrustworthy. Instead of that word he went with "trustworthless" which I like a lot better. Another good one has been a bit of a joke between myself and some of the students when we're on the basketball court. Whenever we can't handle a pass or dribble a ball off of someone's foot out of bounds we say to each other "don't too much!"

Thanks for reading, I hope you are well and in the mean time, don't too much.

Nick