Busy Life

Life has flown by the past few months.  I can hardly believe that it is May already!  It just doesn't seem possible.  It seems like yesterday that I was sitting in my grandparent's living opening Christmas presents.

Work has kept me very busy.  In addition to working 70+ hour weeks though, The Lord has brought me a friend to Phoenix.  About two months ago I started praying for more Christian co-workers in my office.  I was praying for a friend, and for brothers and sisters in dispatch.  I love how God works.  He brought me someone I never would have guessed and never would have thought of.  He brought a girl from home.  Her story is a little like mine.  A job offer on Tuesday, and a flight from Reno to Phoenix on Sunday.  Charlie's story is even more moving because this moving to Phoenix was her first decision after accepting Christ.  I can hardly believe that she's been here for 2 weeks already!

Our Heavenly Father knows much better than we ourselves what we need.  He brought me a roommate, a co-worker, and a sister in Christ.  His timing never fails.  A few days after Charlie arrived, my parents were supposed to come stay for a week.  Long story short, they weren't able to make it.  God was clearly saying no to the timing.  I took it pretty hard.  Nothing like a gyro (Greek food) and new friend to cheer you up though.  Lord willing my parents will fly in on Wednesday!  I'm very excited to see them.  :)

Fire season is under way here in the Southwest.  This week started with job duties for me!  My duties now include being the Intel dispatcher, as well as the Floor Lead.  As the youngest person in my office I create a report every day for the govenor of Arizona and supervise four dispatchers.  It's crazy.  And scary, and is still a little hard to wrap my mind around.  I've gotten to know all of my Tucson guys, and it's a little sad to step back and watch someone else handle it and talk on the radio.  At the same time though, I know that The Lord is stretching me again, and pushing me outside my comfort zone.  Big time.  

Charlie and I are still loving CCV.  I'm excited to take my parents this weekend!

This journey to Australia continues to surprise me at every turn.  One of the fire guys that works with me was telling me about a hideout of his on the San Carlos this week (he's Native American).  He was telling me how to get to the cabin you have to cross the river seven times.  There are no bridges, and horseback is the only way in and out.  He was telling me how people rarely ever make it passed the second ford.  But that from the hideout you can see anyone coming from six miles away.

While some of this journey has been frustrating, scary, and downright hard, I know that at the end I will be glad that I crossed the river every time, and that I stuck to the path that has been set before me.

The morning comes earlier than my eyes want it to.
Goodnight,

Katie