Around the World and Back Again.

Day 2 – A picture of you and the person you have been closest to the longest.

This is a wicked old picture of me and my momma. I wish it was a better quality but we did not have digital cameras back then so this is what you get.

I love my mom very much.  She is my best friend and the first person I call when I am happy, sad, hurt or mad.  She taught me how to do so many things and walked me through the pains of childhood. There is another sweet little pic of us in my Living a new “Always” post.  

My momma flew back home to Texas from Florida for my birthday this weekend.  I am her super special daughter.  We went to the library, ate authentic Tex-mex and laughed until we almost peed our pants. 

She is a wonderful mother, she wasn’t perfect and I could have used a little more discipline, but she loves me so unconditionally. I have a very small apartment and no extra bedroom much less a bed. She selflessly slept on the love seat and let her children sleep in the more comfortable spots of the bed and couch. 

She gave me everything I ever wanted and sacrifices so much for me, I could never thank her enough.

I love you so much mom, Thanks for coming to church with me this morning. I know new crowds are not your favorite thing and you would have preferred to skip church to get on the road a little earlier, but it meant a lot to me that you again sacrificed your comfort to do something that was so important to me.  

Mom,  I love you around the world and back again.

Day One

Ok so I know it’s been like a hundred years since I wrote on here. (Not really but you get my point) I really do miss it. Honestly I just got really busy with the Holiday season and then it felt like it had been too long to just jump back in like nothing happened. So TADA here I am jumping back in.

A ton has happened bad days and blessings, Fun days and sad ones. But it would take me a month of Sundays to explain it all so I won’t. I will tell you that I want to do the 100 days of photos challenge and I think it will help me continue to write plus I love, love, love photos. So here we go.

Day 1: A photo of yourself with 15 facts.

1) This is a photo of me during the summer of 2006 in Japan.

2) I love Japan and have been there several times; sometimes for missions, sometimes for visits. I have family there that is very close to my heart.

3) Unless you live under a rock, and probably even then, you’ve heard about the widespread devastation Japan is facing after the earthquakes and tsunami.

4) My heart is utterly broken for these people.

5) Over 10,000 people have been confirmed to have lost their lives. 17,000 people are still unaccounted for and assumed dead.

6) Over 202,000 people are living in makeshift shelters and the elderly are dying from poor conditions.

7) It is still winter in the impacted area of Japan and there are food shortages and no gas to replenish supplies, with no supplies butane heaters are beginning to be unusable and people are dying from the cold weather.

8) The Nuclear reactor situation continues to worsen.

9) People living within a 30 Kilometer (roughly 18.6 miles) radius are being asked to “voluntarily” evacuate. This is increasingly difficult due to lack of transportation.

10) People working on the reactors are being exposed to very dangerous levels of radiation and it is feared that the reactors are leaking radioactive water that could affect surrounding farm lands and potential food supplies.

11) Radiation levels in Tokyo’s water have been deemed undrinkable and dangerous for infants; there is no more bottled water. Tokyo’s population is 12.9 MILLION.

12) I am raising funds to send to a Christian organization in Japan called Crash Japan. Go to http://www.crashjapan.com/ to contribute.

13) Less than 1% of the population of Japan is Christian.

14) How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” Romans 10:14-15

15) I want to get a team together from Lubbock (or anywhere really) to volunteer in Japan with CrashJapan. Comment on the bottom of the page if you want to GO!