Fredericksburg

My Aunt has asked me to come live with her for the next three months in Fredericksburg while she is undergoing chemotherapy to be her nanny/assistant. She will be able to cover my expenses and I will continue to look for work and pursue missions. Fredericksburg is about 2 hours north of my parents, just outside the DC area. My Aunt is an amazing Godly woman and it would be a blessing to get to live with her and her family during this time. I am continuing to research and pray about what mission organization to go with and where to go. Thanks to everyone for your prayers and encouragement.

This is a prayer from The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions. We prayed this prayer in church on Sunday and I think it is so fitting for my life.

Holy Lord, I have sinned times without number, and been guilty of pride and unbelief, of failure to find Thy mind in Thy Word, of neglect to seek Thee in my daily life. My transgressions and short-comings present me with a list of accusations, but I bless Thee that they will not stand against me, for all have been laid on Christ. Go on to subdue my corruptions, and grant me grace to live above them. Let not the passions of the flesh nor lustings of the mind bring my spirit into subjection, but do Thou rule over me in liberty and power.
I thank Thee that many of my prayers have been refused. I have asked amiss and do not have, I have prayed from lusts and been rejected, I have longed for Egypt and been given a wilderness. Go on with Thy patient work, answering ‘no’ to my wrongful prayers, and fitting me to accept it. Purge me from every false desire, every base aspiration, everything contrary to Thy rule. I thank Thee for Thy wisdom and Thy love, for all the acts of discipline to which I am subject, for sometimes putting me into the furnace to refine my gold and remove my dross.
No trial is so hard to bear as a sense of sin. If Thou shouldst give me choice to live in pleasure and keep my sins, or to have them burnt away with trial, give me sanctified affliction. Deliver me from every evil habit, every accretion of former sins, everything that dims the brightness of Thy grace in me, everything that prevents me taking delight in Thee. Then I shall bless Thee, God of jeshurun, for helping me to be upright.