Anxiety

Today I had a revelation on anxiety. I am in comprehensive medical terminology. One of my words this week is anxiety. As I was memorizing the deffinition, I realized that it applied to me.
There are so many places in my life where I worry. I don't fear animal and I'm comfortable even walking alone at night but I still fear many other things.
I worry about my best friend getting married, about how I physically look, about paying for college, and I worry about being alone forever.
I know that these things are not worthy of my worry. God is there and he can free me of all these things. I just have to release them to Him and trust Him to take care of them.
As soon as I was able to relax in God, and trust Him to take care of everything, my migraine went away.
God is amazing and he's there for the little things and the big.
Just trust Him.
Nicole

This Last Summer

This last summer was my first year working in Alaska. I left Seattle, WA on June 3rd. After several hours of flight, I arived in Ancorage before boarding another, smaller plane, and flying to Dillingham, AK.
I worked in the Egg House where we took Salmon roe and processed and packaged the caviar.
I really enjoyed my time there...mainly because of the people I was able to meet.
It was like a miniature world. There were people from the Philippines, China, Bulgaria, Mexico, Turkey, Columbia, Japan, and not to mention from all over the US.
I did have to learn some things the hard way. There is mainly college age kids there; all trying to pay their way through school...like what I'm doing. So there were some (awesome) parties and a more than enough drinking.
This summer really taught me a lot more than I thought. I learned about drinking, the fishing industry, and more about my family.
Dillingham is somewhat special to me because I have so much family there. My Uncle and Aunt, my dads cousin, and a few of my other first cousins, all work their every summer. I was able to connect with some family I never really had ever been around.

I really had to focus on God to get through this summer. I made some mistakes but I also learned from them.
Thanks God for the amazing opportunity and the path You've put me on.
Nicole