Lord, help me...

With October just around the corner, I am taking the time to look back at the year I have spent in Nebraska. It has been stretching, trying, stressful, rewarding, and a time of growth. This job is definitly a lot harder than I ever imagined. The Lord is good and faithful. But please don't stop praying. I am finding this year point to be about the most trying time for me. Working here has opened my eyes to many lies these youth believe, and in turn I have found that I believe. I am currently finding myself struggling with quite a few personal things, as well as trying to help these kids. I'm getting in the way, and I am finding I have lost my focus. Instead of focusing on God and these kids, my focus has turned to me. I'm not sure when this happened, but now that I realize it I am struggling with turning it back to the Lord. Please pray that the Lord will reveal the lies I have believed and help me to replace it with Truth. I feel I can't give these kids what they need because of myself. I don't know if this makes sense, but please pray that God will become my focus again...that I will lean on Him and rely on Him each and every day! Thank you for your support through your prayers, encouragments, and sometimes even money. They are all very much appreciated and remind me how I am not alone. Blessings!

1 Peter 1:13-16, 22-25

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and

being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the

grace that will be brought to you at the revelation

of Jesus Christ.

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the

passions of your former ignorance, but as he who

called you is holy, you also be holy in all your

conduct, since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy".

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one

another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but

of imperishable,

through the living and abiding word of God; for "All flesh is like grass and all it's glory like the

flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains

forever."

And this word is the good news that was

preached to you.