SEND ME MAIL!!

So, this is me being shameless in my posts and asking you to send me letters. :) Im tired of checking my mail box everyday and not having anything. So, thanks in advance.

Here is my address,


 Jordan Miller
JMEM Herrnhut
Untere DorfStr .56
Ruppersdorf, Germany 02747


So yeah, when you are bored you can draw a little picture or right a note and send it to me!!!!! I really appreciate it too!! :)

Skype.

Yes, I am writing an entire post dedicated to Skype. :)


Without it I would be lost....wait thats a little dramatic, I would just be incommunicado ... :)

I am so amazed that technology can connect me here in the little village of Herrnhut Germany to my friends and family back in the states. :) So, in honor of my few AMAZING and heart warming conversations via Skype I am posting a few photos. :)  ENJOY!!

Also, if you want to Skype with me let me know. It's best if you leave a comment or message on my Skype as I am bad at remembering my comment section on here. :) Have no fear, you won't end up on my blog in a post. Well, you might... I mean come on how can I NOT share these amazing faces!!! I love em!

My AMAZING bestie!!! Who is rocking med-school!!!!!!!

The most amazing nephew ever!!!! He is getting so big!!! It was so amazing to talk to Kim and Sean and little Zeke

 Glad my brothers and I can still be the same no matter the distance between us. The miller gang is forever. 

 Boys and their games. :) 

Oh, you know, its what we do. 

He WAS HOME AND WE TALKED!!!! I was so stoked to talk to him!!!!!!!! 

Yeah, no words. 

Excited much? It was a chip. 

They were enthralled. :) 

I do have photos of mom... however because she turned the camera off while I was taking them, i decided it would be better for my over all health if I not post them here. :) 

*** I want to Skype and am willing to Skype more!! Just FB me here SKYPE MEEEEEEEE 

Until next time, Go ride a cybertron!

A lifestyle of generosity. What does that look like?

If you asked me what a lifestyle of generosity was/looked like two days ago, I might not actually know what to say.

But in the last week God has been moving in our school pushing us to be generous people and pushing the envelop on our idea of living a life of generosity. It started Monday with a time during our worship to ask God what He wanted us to give up or to give to someone else. It was an awesome time. I felt impressed upon my heart to take the money in my wallet and give it to one of the staff members and just write on the outside "for Snowboots." So I did. The rush of emotions was crazy afterwards. I felt freedom that I had no idea I was missing out on. As the day went on though, I started to panic and I felt God pulling my heart to give to more people. But as I was mentally seeing money go out I was seeing a list build of things I wanted/needed. (being honest it was more stuff I wanted.) That little fear in me started to grow. And as the day went on the fear got crazy. I was panicking. 

My fear was that I will always be in need and I would be prevented from doing what God had asked me to do because I didn't have what I thought I needed to accomplish it. For example, I don't have photoshop on my laptop. I had been using a 30 day trial that ran out last week. But I am not supposed to stop taking photos and stop allowing God to speak to me just because I don't have it. Between God and I, we will work a way out to get photos edited and assignments turned in. I've started to want a fixed 50mm lens for my camera. They are better for portraits, however with the help of God i've realized I can use the lenses I have right now to get the job done and I know down the line as I listen to God and follow his guiding I will receive more equipment. He will make sure of it.  

So, Tuesday morning Josiah announced that the staff didn't have an exact plan for our intercession time. But they had a point that they felt God wanted us to start at. And it was again generosity and to continue what God was doing monday. I don't really remember exactly what I heard first or where I started. It was more like I fell into the deep end of the pool. One minute I was dry on the side and the next I was soaked and treading water. I thought through with God what He wanted me to give up or away. I had mentally gone through all the stuff in my room back in town and I didn't feel anything. Then I thought, "what do I have on me? Or with me here?" Immediately I felt my iPod in my pocket. I told God, "No." He said "Yes." again I said, "No." Then He pushed further and I cried No. As I argued I felt like my iPod in my pocket was getting heavier and heavier. 

We started a box at the front of the tent conveniently called the "Generosity Box." Genius, I know. :) Anyways, If we felt to give something away but God doesn't say to whom, we could put it in the box. Also, God may say to go get something out of the box. Back to my iPod argument I lost. I, reluctantly slipped my iPod into the generosity box. 

It was hard. Releasing my iPod into the box was so crazy. I mean, it is so hard to explain the feelings I felt afterward. That afternoon I was talking to a good friend of mine while we were re-sealing and painting some castle windows, about that morning and what I was feeling God do in my life and what he was doing in her life. As I described to her about my iPod incident I clearly heard God speak to me that I would be getting an iPod back, but not for a bit. I was to give up my iPod to spend more time with Him. My iPod had become my escape when I was frustrated with things and I was using it to shut Him out. So, now I walk through the forest looking around and listening to God instead of furiously storming through with my head down and my iPod in my ears. 

So, yeah.. My eyes and heart have been changed this week. Truly all I have is His and He is enough for me. 

Some more crazy things that have happened this week. A student in the photo track felt God telling him to give another student from Ethiopia his digital camera. The student from Ethiopia was using a borrowed camera from a generous person. The same day the photo student gave away his digital camera,  a staff member came and gave him, her older medium format camera. CRAZY!! GOD is INSANE!!! 

One of my roommates, Tay, was given a brand new mac book pro, that another student had been given. He felt he was to give Tay  the laptop. Tay took it and prayed and felt it was to go back to the guy that gave it to her. Sometimes God wants us to have our hearts in the right position. It's not that He doesn't want us to have nice things but for our hearts to be softened and positioned in the right stance. 

Until next time, go hug some one. 

Hello cyber world.

It has been a while since I have been on here. :)

Germany is still fantastical. Even if it is cold. Oh my goodness it is so cold. I don't think I would be as startled by the chill if the day before it wasn't shorts and t-shirt warm and then the NEXT day, all of a sudden it felt like middle of January winter. That was a little annoying. All the Germans keep saying that it isn't cold yet. Which Im not sure if that makes me scared or frightened. Either way it doesn't look good. But it does make me want a big cup of hot tea. 

I've been here almost a month and a half. This coming friday will be exactly a month and a half. That is a crazy thought to think. I mean, whoa I've been in Germany and away from home for 6 weeks! Holy cow! 

DTS has been crazy good. Donna Jordan was here and that was a pivotal week for me. Things shifted and God moved in my heart. It was so good to get back to the basics and just spend quiet time with Jesus. This past week Stephen Goode was here and he talked all about Human Trafficking and extreme poverty. Crazy thing happened while Steve was here. Monday afternoon after the workshop God reminded me of a dream I had about 6-7 months ago. Long and short there was an older gentlemen in my dream and it was Steve! So crazy!! As cool as that seemed I tried to forget about it the rest of the week… I mean how weird would that be to go up to someone and just say "you were in my dream…. 6 months ago."  -- As much as I wanted to forget it, God didn't want me to forget it. So, I finally told God if he made an opening for me to tell steve I would. Wouldn't you know, that day an opportunity opened and I held up my end of the deal and I told Steve. It was weird. But it wasn't weird. He hugged me, smiled and just said "So we are supposed to go further." And that was that. Not weird at all…… well maybe a little. I got the chance to have lunch with Steve on Friday and it was so good to talk to him. SO inspiring! He gave some great advice that I would not have thought to ask anyone about or even known I should ask. It was so good. God is crazy weird and good!! :) So bazar sometimes how he works. 

I got my package that mom sent me!! I was so excited!! I never thought I would be that stoked about getting clothes that didn't fit in my suitcase! It was so crazy. But so awesome because it was just in time for the cooler weather and I now have LOTS of clothes to layer. :) So stoked. 

I keep getting distracted .. my bad…. and I lost that train of thought……well this is now awkward. 

Oh, one of the buds in my headphones has a short in the wire so it goes out most of the time. It's sad really. The are my favorite headphones that I got not too long ago. 

I feel really random at the moment and like i'm sharing useless information. I am pretty sure that is all as a result of how tired I am right now. 

Until next time, go get some ice cream. 

Tschus!!!