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CALIFORNIA here I come!

SO it's official, I got the call today confirming that I will be spending June 13 - August 20th in Newport Beach, California for Summer Project. Although San Diego was my first choice, this one being my second choice, I could not be more thrilled! It's funny how the Lord has this way of taking control of those sorts of things. I honestly had no real concrete basis for my choice and the order in which they were chosen. I know very little about this project, but my phone call this afternoon from the director made me very excited. It made this whole summer project thing so much more real for me. Before it was merely an application I completed months ago, a thought that I had potential plans for the summer, but now it is sustained, and now the real preparation begins. The second thought to pop into my mind when I got off the phone was now how am I going to get 2,700 dollars to go to this thing?! ( the first being WOW!) Although I know the money raising will become a constant thought in the back of my mind, right now I am a little giddy at the thought of spending my entire summer in one of the most beautiful beaches in the US.

What God can do with me there is so obtuse I can't even begin to fathom. The dates of this project are a little different than the one I was expecting to get, so now I can also go to Gulf Shores Alabama at the beginning of June and be a counselor at High School Camp for my church back home, which I've done every summer and was a bit sad to miss out on the exciting week of camp, and now I can do both! I should also be able to go to Chicago now and watch my little brother graduate high school, which had I gotten my first choice wouldn't have been able to work out dates wise. God is too cool! I love it when He shows me in all these miniscule ways that He is the one who is in control here, and when I let him be, then and only then am I able to see His will SO clearly! Props to the big man upstairs!

Now I just have to figure out how I am going to make it through the rest of this spring semester when I know all I will be thinking about is CALIFORNIA! For now I will just sing my theme song, also the theme song for THE O.C. ~"California here we come, right back where we started from, CALIFORNIA! CALIFORNIA! Here WE COOOOOOOOOME!!!!!!"

posted by Amanda Michelle Morrison @ 8:19 PM