Well grad is over and done with and already I am finding my days to be much different than any other summer. For one it is hotter in BC than in Alberta, and for two I am living with the knowledge that a new chapter of my life has started. As Sydney and I decided, to say a new chapter does not seem right as so much has changed that life feels almost like the beginning of a new book. However to say we are starting a new book sounds to final and like everything from the old is being left forever in the past. We decided mutually that though life is changing, all the things from the past will remain part of us and friendships do not have to end with grad. Therefore we are beginning a new book but it is a sequel to the one we have written in the past. The is "the adult years"the sequel to all that has happened up until this point. It will have many of the same characters as before and references to all that happened in the previous book.  For any who have known me or for that matter have taken a few minutes to read previous posts, you will know that for most of June ( in the final chapter of  "old book") I was praying that I would receive an answer as to whether I have been accepted into the Watoto 360 program or not by the 29 of June. In one hundred percent honesty, though I believe that God can do all things and that he loves me and cares for my every need, there was a part of me that doubted that he would answer the prayer for confirmation in the time line I had set. I mean he is God and his timing is not always mine ( as I have learned many times since beginning this application process). However on June 30 I found waiting in my inbox another message from the Watoto staff and though it was not the final go ahead that I have been waiting for I have received the second phase of the application process. This requires a criminal record check , and the filling out of two health forms. So though it is not quite the answer I was looking for God did provide for me in the time frame that I had asked of him (though  it does astound me that I had the audacity to set a time frame for the creator of the universe in the first place!!!), and as one of my cousins and various others have pointed out for me in one way it can be looked at as a kind of acceptance in that I doubt that Watoto would have passed me from the first stage to this second if I had not passed the initial stages of application. Now again the ball is again  in my court and if this application is going to be finished  it is once again up to me. It seems so overwhelming, moving, starting over again, and having this all to do in such a short period, however God has promised that "my grace will be sufficient for you". I know that he is looking after me and will see me into all that is coming in my future.By his grace I will continue on and find my way, even as far as Africa.