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You know those times in life when you someone goes into your bathroom and pees all over the place and makes a giant mess including some kind of ointment packet trash and everytime they leave your bathroom your heart rate sky-rockets because you know they've just made a mess and you get to clean it up? Thats been going on for a while at my store. I used to get angry. But something happened. We are to share the gospel with all who don't know. But sometimes I feel a deeply specific burden to share with someone...and thats what happened. I stopped getting angry and bathroom-destroyer and started praying for him. I decided to sit down with him yesterday. We talked for a long time. Turns out he had prostate cancer and surgery to take it out. The doctors failed to do so and failed to tell him. He got another doctor to go in to check it and found that not only had they left the cancerous prostate in, but the cancer has started to spread throughout his body. As far as doctors in Louisville know, he is the only person to have that same prostate cancer surgery TWICE. He has five to ten years to live. And then he explained his bathroom messiness. **WARNING...THIS ISN'T PRETTY** The second surgery eliminated his ability to pee properly. So what he does is he has a permanent hole in his stomach. He carries a tube around everywhere he goes. He uses the ointment stuff to cleanse the tube and then sticks the tube into his stomach. He pees through a stomach tube. I learned a great deal about this guy and I'm so thankful for it. I'm thankful his honesty and for the doors that God is opening.

In other news, GLOBALPOST.COM (linked on the side) is now my new favorite website. It is a company in Boston that has people all over the world. The people either write in or make videos of news stories. They then send them to globalpost. Good stuff. Quality stories. The reporting, to this point, has been solid and honest and, in some cases, fun.

Will write more soon about spiritual learnings. God is teaching me SO MUCH! Will share soon.

Also, got word from the scholarship. You know, nothing huge...JUST GOD PROVIDING EXACTLY WHAT WE NEEDED! God is way too good to us.

More later.