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1.)Yes, I'm LEAVING. Sunday, actually. I am staying with a family near Chiang Mai. Basically they work with the Hmong tribal group in the mountains and maintain a tea and pig farm. This helps the Hmong people relate to them. I met this family from JM (who I know from HSA). But since the world is so small, the missionary happens to be from Lindale, Texas.
2.) Why, Thailand? I have wanted Asia for a while, and the burden has gotten increasingly heavier the last several months....probably the job burnout helped speed this up. In Thailand less than .2% of the people are Christian. Missions has failed there because the people do not relate to the missionaries. So instead of going through an organization, I wanted to go independent and see missions done in process. What better opportunity than to visit a self-supported missionary?
3.) Specifically, I want to be apart of social reform and help the most broken of all...not just physically but spiritually and emotionally (for once a heart is broken, it can take years to repair). I can really relate to believing lies and relate to pain.
4.) I sort of put off missions because my idea involves a family ministry (transforming an entire region dominated with sexual and slave abuse, whether in Asia, Africa, or America, probably will not happen without people getting into the homes, rather than an organization). But then as I started denouncing a self-centered life of self-gratification, I had to start pursuing my vision anyway. Surprisingly, as I said before, I started to meet people with my vision. Quite literally I could head oversees with not just my own family (which I don't have yet - don't start rumors. lol) but with other families as well. PRAISE GOD!
5.) Now instead of fears of not finding a guy, I am facing my fears of marriage in general. I was so foolish in college that I doubt my ability to live and model godliness. ugh! God help me.
6.) You all asked. No, I really don't miss school. I got a letter from TWU this week offering me money to come back to their masters program. I'm grinning, scratching my head, laughing ,what have you. I got more reading and writing done this semester than ever. I have friends with clear visions. I see work being communicated and done better without schooling...so why would I go? I love philosophy, but philosophy with vision and purpose make my world all the more pure.
Love you all! Send me e-mails this summer: lexicalvoice@yahoo.com.
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| I quit my job at the library a week ago, and I have been in wonderland ever sense. I felt so stifled to a mediocre lifestyle there. I AM FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE OMG!
I am currently living at home. However, I am going to Thailand in three weeks. *rejoice* Every day I just sit here in glee and happiness. I am free from the chains of school (Trinity Western told me to come back in the fall, and I just laughed. I mean, I have read so much more outside school than inside) and the corporations.
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| I am now posting on
www.biblicalvisionthinkers.blogspot.com
I PROMISE IT WON'T BE ALL SERIOUS!
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| I don't xanga anymore, but you can look me up on facebook (Marlana D____), though no promises I will hang around there forever.
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| Well, then, so xanga still exists.
Was asked to update.
1.) I am living in the forest of an enchanted vision. I can't ever sleep in. I can't ever fall asleep. I just want to write articles and talk all the time. I am like a little kid, I swear.
2.) I'm trying to get to SE Asia because I want to see - and be apart of - social reform. Isn't that different?
3.) I have an entire new set of friends, mostly homeschoolers (which I only point out because I've never really done a whole lot with home schoolers) who always vision-caste with me and hold me accountable to sorts like purity and contentment. Oh, gosh, I appreciate them.
4.) Except for Katherine of Greatness, I haven't seen my ETBU friends in six months. Since I've tasted all this other, I don't think I could ever go back to the pointless conversations, or even college life itself.
5.) I'm writing an extensive article write now on the function of work with the amazing JM, or Tsheej as the normal folks call him. He's got coolness, visions, burdens for people, and philosophy all going on.
6.) In summary, I'll say this: I got a vision, started pursuing that vision, and I suddenly met lots of others with that vision.....as say, when I was mindless and vision-less and met fools.
Makes sense.
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