Do not be terrified, do not be afraid of them. The Lord your God is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, and in the desert. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place. (Deuteronomy 1:29-31)

The world behind me, the cross before me.
No turning back, no turning back.
(I Have Decided to Follow Jesus)

He brought me all the way to Bangkok. He showed me many things to delight in here, meeting my needs every day, protecting me from disaster. He will be faithful to the end. Remembering what God has done in the past should give us confidence in our future--i.e. we should have no anxiety from thinking ahead. This frees us to think about the present, what God has given us now.

This also gives me the freedom to just write because I love to write, one sentence at a time, exploring realms through words. Each project for these applications is just an opportunity to write and discover through writing. I've fooled myself into believing that each of these writing assigments for applications will determine my future, but it doesn't work like that.

One more quote:
Life is a game
and True love is the trophy
(Rufus Wainwright, Poses)

God did what he did so we could move through this world fearlessly, like a game--to engage in our surroundings knowing there are no losers, there's not even teams (if we're all on the same team, are there teams?). This is what I think it means to have the world behind us--it means we don't let it dictate how we view our lives. Instead, we let the Spirit of Jesus reveal his truths in us and build our lives from there.