Heal the World, Make it a Better Place...

Eye, yi, yi…busy, busy, busy I’ve been. I think about blogging during the day, but then I don’t have time to get around to it. This new position has me trudging through a long to-do list each day that I never really finish. I just end up making a new one the next day, adding the things I didn’t get to the day before, and more things that come up. I’ve been in and out of meeting all day today. While my head feels a little overloaded, I am super excited with the direction that I myself, and the project I am working on, is moving toward. It has helped me feel like more of an integral part of my writing/donor engagement, fulfillment, and development team. (JARGON. JARGON. JARGON.) Anyway, we are basically creating my position each day as we go forward. It is really exciting for me, since I get to be involved with an awesome program at World Vision. Sometimes it amazes me the direction life takes you…If you would have asked me when I was still at Western and in the midst of my journalism degree, where I saw myself, it certainly wouldn’t have been here. One of my favorite mantras though is “Things happen for a reason,” and boy do they ever. For those of you who don’t already know, or have not read my previous blog, I am now a Project Manager/Writer for a program at WV that we call Community Partnerships. A Community Partnerships is basically where a donor adopts a village in Africa. It is amazing and interesting. The donor’s money provides the village with things that they otherwise could not have. I just learned today that I get to take over the role of providing letters and gifts to the donor from the village. I am excited for this because they are supposedly awesome. The letters are all handwritten and the gifts are created by people in the village, such as last year a donor received a huge painting someone painted of the village. I’m excited to organize this…it should add some heartwarming touches to my day. All in all, I am happy that I have been given the chance to work for a non-profit company. We do incredible work all over the world, and it makes me feel that I am making a difference, however small it may be…

Currently Feeling: Sleepy. I had to wake up super early to make something for our “breakfast devotional.” If done so much praying today (weird); I’m definitely going to be doing some extra sinning tonight!
Currently Listening To: Ben Harper’s new CD over and over. Trying to learn the words for the concert…
Currently Anticipating: Seeing the Brit. He’s out of town, and I miss him!