So why is it that when you are most vulnerable Satan decides to bombard you with thoughts and images that you do not want in your mind.  Purity seems to be the biggest issue with me right now...or the lack there of... I should say.  I am writing this right now because I just laid down to go to bed about an hour ago(by the time I post this) and was bombarded with thoughts an images from recent conversations people had at work as well as many other things.  It never occurred to me that once I opened myself up to impurity in one area of life, that it would soon try to take over all aspects of it.  I have recently repented to God on many actions and thoughts that I have done or had and felt free from those things.  And then tonight the flood of impurity came.  This insomnia is the worst yet.  Usually I am an insomniac at other places I stay that I do not or have never called home.  And so now I am in my own home (for the time being) in my own bed (also for the time being) being kept awake by a mind that just won't sleep.  I hate it!!  And the worst part is...I should be tired.  I just got home not too long ago from working 2nd shift and will be working 1st shift tomorrow so I can drive to Macomb tomorrow to be there for my class on Friday.  Grrrrrr!!  Ughh!!
Ok Lord here is my prayer to you right now.  I pray for purity in mind body and in spirit because this is what you desire from us all.  And though none of us have any bragging rights and all have sinned in your eyes, help us to be pure.  I am not perfect and have failed and will fail again several more time in my life.  But the one thing that I have passed with flying colors in is calling out to you in my darkness and finding your light.  Please help my mind to rest and vanquish any lingering impure thoughts that my still be in my head as I lay back down to sleep.  My your goodness win over all the evil in me.  It's in the one and only reason I can come to you now that I pray.  ~*Amen*~

Goodnight friends and may you win over the impurities in your lives as well with Jesus by your side!

So it seems like it has been forever and a day since i last posted on here.  Almost 4 months.  It use to be that I posted every single day.  Well I guess I'm posting now because I have a beautiful best friend who wants to know what I'm up to every day.  So since this uploads to facebook I might as well start posting more here. 

So what have I been up to lately, you ask?  Well I have moved out of the CSC house into the unknown world of 1127 Adams Street at Quincy Illinois.  I am living with a great lady named Luann, and I can't ask for a better landlady.  She has a great sense of humor even through all of the things she has been through.  And she gives all the credit to God.  That is amazing.  If I haven't told you Luann' story yet, here it is: Luann was and is part of a Christian Motorcycle Association.  She was riding her motorcycle through Keokuk with some people from the group and was involved in an accident with a truck's load not being secured down and falling on her. It killed one lady and took her leg.  She is now learning to walk again with a prothetic leg.  She is one blessed lady and you can't help but feel blessed to know her.

While down here in Quincy, I am working at my practicum with the Adams County Juvenile Detention Center.  It is a great place to be a part of but my days there can be very slow because I am not allowed to much but watch the detention officers work.  I can hang out with the kids, do twenty-minute room checks, go to court with the officers and them and other little bits here and there.  If your not up to a really time consuming internship/practicum this place is for you.  I am trying to get the most out of it by being attentive and watching closely to what is being done.  I feel like I pick up alot on the procedures by just watching. but that all i can do is watch.

I miss my friends alot but am getting use to the routine of getting up, going to work for 8hrs, coming home, talking to Heath for a couple of hours on the phone and then going to bed.  I enjoy the long phone calls with Heath since it's all the contact I get with him most weeks until I come up for my class every other weekend.  The phone calls can definitely be frustrating at times but they are growing opprotunities for the both of us.

This week has been slow for me at ACJDC since the kids have been locked up in their rooms a lot because of intakes and being understaffed. It been more eventful for the detention officers.  But I was able to do a few things I would normally do.  Since and officer had to go out of county for transport I had to write his daily notations for the kids in his pods I mostly just wrote what the supervisor told me but now i know what they look at each shift to score the kid on for their levels(A,B,C,D,&E) not like a regular grading scale though.  It was quite interesting.  Some of these kids are pretty funny and interesting.  Some of them just need some good direction and they could be on their way to success.  Others seem to have some issues intellegence-wise that has gotten them in here. We have gotten several new kids this week that i haven't gotten a chance to get to know but the ones that have been here i love.  But i also realize that they are just being good here and doing what needs to be done to get out of here.  Once they get out of here they may and most likely will fall back into their old ways which is quite sad because they have proven that they know what is right they just choose not to do it.

Well I hope that tells you what is going on in my neck of the woods, maybe i'll check-in in another 4 months or so..lol...maybe a little sooner this time.

Counting my blessings!