Finally!

So, I haven’t blogged in a long forever time of almost infinity. Sorry about that. Life here just goes on so quickly I even have a hard time remembering what day it is. But today is Saturday and I met my brother core today.
My dad has told me that I should tell you about what the Honor Academy is about. So, here it goes; The Honor Academy (HA) is a Christian facility. The Ministry behind it is TEEN MANIA; it covers all the programs that are run at HA (which is the base that everything is run out of). The ministries that TEEN MANIA runs are: Honor Academy, Acquire the Fire (ATF), eXtreme Camps, and Global Expeditions. There are a few programs run inside the HA, but I’ll talk about them at a later date. So, I’m here at the HA and studying to pursue Gods heart. They call the HA a green house because we come here to grow our “roots” deep and to be taken care of and taught how to grow well in the Lords presence. The HA’s mission statement: Our heartbeat is, to teach a young generation to passionately pursue Jesus Christ, and to take his life giving message to the ends of the earth.
It’s just amazing how they stick to that. Wow. I never imagined that I could push myself to “jog” (my run is most peoples’ jog… I’m very slow) a little over 2 miles! With God on my side I can do anything! And I’ve found a new heart of worship. I danced for the first time in my life in worship. It was so liberating!
We had our first biweekly fast on Wednesday and I had such an encounter with God, my father and lover of my soul. At first I was just hungry and a bit angry that we couldn’t eat but as the day went on (they had worship and prayer service at the times we usually ate) I learned that fasting makes your prayers louder and your worship more meaningful and that we should do it often.
But today I really don’t remember much… it all gets mushed together here. Days run into weeks and weeks into a month! I can’t even believe I’ve been here for a month! Wow.
ESOAL is coming up. Oh! I really haven’t told you what ESOAL is! I should do that! Ok. ESOAL (emotionally stretching opportunity of a lifetime) is an event called an LTE (life transforming event). I don’t know that much about it myself. They keep it in the dark and surprise us. But I do know that it will be hard and physically challenging as well as emotionally. I really don’t know much more, except that we won’t get much sleep, we will get wet, and be miserable… yup. That’s what they told us.
Monday my core and I went to a very nice place, it was a prayer chapel and it was amazing! So peaceful and quiet and a great place to be in the presence of the Lord. We shared our testimonies (or rather finished every one) and then hung around for awhile. When my small group that stayed a little longer than everyone else decided to go I got stung by a wasp! It wasn’t too bad but, I had a hard time walking because it was on my toe (that sounds so funny!) and it hurt a lot. I couldn’t run with my core that night and I was sad. But, I’m not allergic and I could do everything the next day so it wasn’t very bad at all.
So life is amazing and I have Jesus’ love in me and his strength. I will finish finish ESOAL and I will try to blog more often! (but I won’t promise anything) God bless.