Many poeple has asked me,"what have you learned this summer"?How was you summer? Words in a couple minutes can not explain at all what I have learned and what God has revealed to me.    Some people know and others don't. My boyfriend and I of 2 years and 8 months broke up a couple days before the trip ended. Does it hurt?Yes it hurts a lot because the man I loved for so long is no longer in my life. The person I use to call first when good news happened is not there any more. The person I went to when tears were overwhelming my eyes is no longer there to give...

There is so much to share and such little blank space to put it all in. As you know the access to computers has been very minimum but thank you Jesus here I am. I will be blogging more when I return home in a few days. Trying to help you grasp my Heart and all the places God has moved and healed. In our team spiritualy and physically and everyone we have gotten to come in contact with. Awesome can´t grasp how awesome my master, my farther, my Groom is. This is how i´m going to start you off….   Dear Satan, You mistreat me You drowned out the voice of reason ...

The sun came up, and the sun went down; just like any other day. Nothing in the natural realm set the day of which I am writing apart from any other day. It was by all appearances a normal day, well, as normal goes for twenty some Americans in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. Our definition of normal is drastically different than when we got on a plane two months ago. The place was Castaña. The Lord has been unleashing a crazy amount of freedom in all of us, freedom to live by His Spirit, under the new covenant. Hes been teaching each of us what it really looks like to live this...

The first thing I have to say is God is in control. But, I do not always know what He is going to do or has in mind for me to do. A lot of times, though, He lets me get a glemps of where he is taking me, and sometimes I do not like the way it looks. This is where trust comes into play. I personally know that His plan for me is better than anything I could ever do on my own, and whether or not I like the way it looks at the time I have a choice to do one of two things, I can either prolong the inevitable or just bite the bullet and go with it. In other words I can either trust in Him...

 Truth that leads to freedom is Stripped Stripped of trappings Stripped of presentation Stripped of eloquence Stripped of ingenuineness It is raw It is honest It is real It is as fresh as water on bare skin It is as raw as the calloused carpenter¨s hands Peel away, layer by layer down to the core where truth is Exposed for all to see Freedom pulses through each vein of this Stripped, Exposed truth.   I find myself in a raw place right now, with 2 months of Amazon trekking in hindsight. God keeps stripping me of my layers. I found a lot of comfort...

Well…how would you answer? For the first 21 years of my life this conversation would look similar to this… So tell me, who are you? My name is Jared Townsend. No no, you misunderstood me. Thats your name. Who are you? Umm…I´m a college student at UCF. Thats what you do though, I want to know who you are! Well I´m a guitarist and athlete! You´re not getting it…thats what you do, not who you are.  I could keep going but I think you get the idea. Our identity is not found in how many years we´ve been around or who we´re...