such as changing hearts in certain friends, providing funds for university, helping me with details for malang, helping me find my ring from Alan (the first time :/ i think i have a problem), with a scholarship for Erik, and overflowing me with His Truth and Holy Spirit, and for giving me the entire detailed outline of one of His dreams for me.
to write a book about Indonesia.
it will have three parts, like the three stages in life.
as an infant, teenager, and elder.
and in each section: I will compile all of my journals, notes, conversations with God- to bring the raw truth of this entire experience, even what you haven't heard of because it was too personal, out into the open. Because it's not my heart that's troubling me, I'm not worried about risking that at all, this is for God's glory. so that people can honestly sit down, and discover him through the raw pages of journals that show a journey in the wilderness, and a lifetime gone through in nine months. from ignorant, to demanding change, to reflective.
He's given me the idea of how to write it, what to write, and now- without the time- He encourages me to write all the notes, and compile them in America, since I will have to work little, with the beautifully scholarship love letter He sent me :)
This will be published, whether with a company or just individual. but with the raw truth. God will work. no matter who reads it, or how long it takes to write the book. You will walk through my steps, learn from my mistakes, learn from my challenges, and take from them the simple and compound truths that God brought my way during this portion of His extravagant plan for my life!
The second dream has been one on the back of my mind for a while. The past few weeks, He's been touching me over and over almost everyday with verses about giving to the poor, and giving your clothes, and not worrying about where yours will come from next. And I believe that He's calling me to start something with clothes. collecting them in the states, or whereever i find them extra, and sending them to places in Indonesia.
Just the other day, i was in PIM, with a very short lady behind me. I was moved to talk with her, for her skin was red and i don't think she had hair. And while loving her through conversations, God nudged me to ask her if she knew any connections with places I could send clothes. Instead of being confused, she right away said that her mother had a connection in Papua to send clothes to. because the people there have just had the effects of the flood that touched down in Australia also. And so- with the newfound idea that to help the problem of population, pollution, and the low value of worker. the rest of indonesia has to develop, so not all indonesians want to or have to go to Jakarta for a good job. But can go to any other city as well. and papua is one place that has fertile soil for dropping Christ's seed. with that mindset~ they are also open to new ways of government, as the younger generation in Java is too- but are generally not heard.
So touching the Papuans with clothes, leads them to not worry about their clothes, but save money for education. Because then with education, new ideas spring to better their own country. The main problem would be that Papua is the only island that's the farthest from Java, so they are more than often stereotyped as jungle people. But if the Papuans could get over this stereotype and continue on to change their country's government and show the necessity for change~ and show how Papua has developed, they may have a fighting chance. And if Papua, and Malang, Bukittinggi and Berastagi are infused with better education and money straight from the government, the cities will be made modern, and then the people from Jakarta could go back to the towns that they truly love, instead of being in Jakarta's huge city you can get lost in; and all of Indonesia will be embraced, instead of just Jakarta.
Big idea :) Big Dream.
and my part: sending clothes to the Papuans. the first seed.
I don't know how far God wants to take this. But i think it first depends on the true connections I recieve, the clothes I collect, the money I fundraise, and His Will to be done.
But this may just be the start of something even bigger than a book :)
Who knows. I'm open to all ideas now, Go God!!