The First Hike

Yesterday I went on my first real trip into the outdoors with the base. This was the second trip that had happened but the first I was able to go on due to my bad knee(see past post for more info on the knee). The trip had two different hikes that you could do. The first being a trip to the top of Mt. Isabel and the second a shorter hike up the mountain to a waterfall. I choose to do the second because I was not sure just how my knee would do. Wow I am so glad that I choose the shorter of the two because I am so sore today that it hurts to get up out of a chair let alone climb a set of stairs or something like that. The trip up was hard and I found it hard to appreciate God's creation as I spent the whole trip up trying to find my breath in the air directly under my nose. It was definitely worth it though because the waterfall was amazing and was small enough to stand in. Wow the water was so cold that I could not stand in it for more than 10 or 15 seconds with out my head feeling like it was going to explode! We then ran back down the trail in fine form yelling our lungs out to God the entire way down... So like I said it was great and I am looking forward to all the trips to come, also my new hair feels great when I run so I am looking forward to doing more of it in the future. Bit of a side note I will being finding out my outreach team on Tuesday and am very excited to find out who else will be with me.

Transparency

I am writing this late at night on Thursday the 21st of October. Tomorrow morning we are going to have the opportunity to come to God and lay something at his feat that we are holding on to, or something that is keeping us from him. We will confess this thing or tell of this thing to the rest of the school and then go and pray at the foot of the cross and let it go in God. I want you all to be part of my confession because it is something that I have hid from most of you for almost two years now out of shame and fear of what you would think of me if I told you. Today God, my father helped me to overcome that fear of rejection and the fear of man. So hear it goes, I am laying my sexual immoralities at the foot of the cross and giving it up to God. I have already repented from it and received healing and forgiveness for it but yet I continue to hold on to it and it continues to weigh me down. I have had perversions in my life for last eight years or so in the form of pornography, masturbation, and lust. But the event that sticks out the most is the night when I lost my viginity for the first time. This is me I am no longer a virgin and I ask of your forgiveness for hiding this from you. Please pray for me that I can finally let go of this past sin that has been such a burden in my life for the last decade. This is what the Lord Jesus Christ has put on my heart to lay at his feet he spoke to me very clearly that he wants to take this burden from me and all that I need to do is confess it to you all and maintain tansparency in the lord so that he may continue to work in my life. So take at that and think what you may but I am a sinner no better than the rest of you, and am only saved through the power of Jesus Christ who died that all may have life. Also the Father has put it on my heart to cut my hair as an outward sign to all that I have given up controlling my own life and have dedicated it to serving the Lord. So I have always wondered how I would look with a Mohawk, guess we will find out...

Please Pray For Strength and a Non-judgmental Attitude towards others,
Preston

Try #2

Ok once again the website, www.geocities.com/jondlovell/ for some reason it wont let me link to it so just copy and paste it.