The time is quickly, way too quickly, but not quickly enough, approaching for me to be taking off from The Last Frontier to a New Frontier. A few thoughts as I am finishing up my last support/thank you letter: 1) I am going to be gone a looooooong time. At least for me it seems like a long time. I think back to Ecola and how the first week lasted forever, but it was a good forever. I can't even imagine what this is going to be like. I know time will fly when I look back on all of this, but for the time being I am going to enjoy (as much as possible) every moment that God has given me. 2) Not staying on track with God

does not equal an excellent time. The days when I choose to sleep in rather than get up and give God the time we need to talk = a harder day. I feel an emptyness and feel like I've dissed a friend/a brother/my creator by being selfish. I need the time with Him every morning. 3) Formulated Christianity is not what I want to preach/ live. I want that relationship, that requires being open (as much as it hurts sometimes) with people, being vulnerable, being on the level with people that they understand that someone cares. 4) Dying to self

IS SO HARD. Every morning getting up and saying, "Hey God, this is your day. The day that you've given me to give back to the most of my ability.

USE me for your will." I've come to realize how much of a selfish person I am, but God is teaching me, and I'm slowly learning, what it is to give myself completely to Him, but the amazingly awesome thing is that it is so

Fulfilling.

These are some of the things that I'm thinking about as time dwindles down to the countdown.

*I wanted to mess with the colours so those of you who do read it are drawn to different words and don't fall asleep.