-Being asked to pray with a couple on Camden High Street on Monday, and seeing a lot of interest from one of them in coming to church on Sunday.
-God working in my team and strengthening our relationships with each other. Feel like we're becoming more real and honest with each other.
-Sitting and laughing over tea with a friend here. She has a safetypin as one of her many piercings. I have pearl earrings. She is wearing all black. I look like a farmgirl in a bright plaid shirt. She comes with a hangover. I don't even know what that feels like. And yet it just seems so natural and fun when there is tea in our hands. She asks me how I've been feeling. I ask how her wedding went overseas. We lose track of time, and she starts opening up about stuff, and I sit there feeling thankful that God has brought this friend into my life.
-Taking a muffin to a trader this morning and her getting excited to see me and saying, "Hey, when you asked me how you could be praying for me on Monday, did you actually pray for me?" "Yeah, I did. How come?" She then begins opening up about some stuff that happened later that day, and how that night she just felt a lot of peace about it, and she wondered if it was because I had prayed for her that day. She said that she had told her friend in the stall next door (who I get coffee with regularly) about it and was hoping that I would come by, so that she could tell me.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
"Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it." -A.W. Tozer
"God's compassion is my story, is my boasting all the day;
Mercy free and never failing moves my will, directs my way.
God so loved us, God so loved us, that His only Son He gave.
And the world will sing His love."
I want to tell His story of compassion to the people of Camden, many of whom are living in musty caves when the sun is shining right outside. Lord, give me the strength and endurance to do so.
"God's compassion is my story, is my boasting all the day;
Mercy free and never failing moves my will, directs my way.
God so loved us, God so loved us, that His only Son He gave.
And the world will sing His love."
I want to tell His story of compassion to the people of Camden, many of whom are living in musty caves when the sun is shining right outside. Lord, give me the strength and endurance to do so.
Today I went to the British Museum (if you haven't been and get the chance, it's an amazing place!). "A" told us that people travel all over the world to see history, but so much of history is sitting in this building. He took us through an exhibit on the Assyrians, Persians, and Greeks, pointing out specific artifacts. We'd pull out our Bibles and stand there reading texts in the Old and New Testament that coincide with what we were looking at! It was an amazing way to spend my day off! Here is an example:
This is "wallpaper" from the palace in Nineva. "A" pointed out the scorch marks on the markings and began reading from his notes that archeologists state that the black marks are from a fire that took place in Nineva sometime between 640-620AD. Nahum prophesized that because the cruel Assyrians would not repent (about a century after Jonah went there and the city repented), God would send a devastating fire to the city. Nahum was a prophet around 650AD. Cool, eh?
This is a tablet that was found that talks about Noah and how a flood came to destroy the earth.
This is all in walking distance from where I live! Better take advantage of it!
This is "wallpaper" from the palace in Nineva. "A" pointed out the scorch marks on the markings and began reading from his notes that archeologists state that the black marks are from a fire that took place in Nineva sometime between 640-620AD. Nahum prophesized that because the cruel Assyrians would not repent (about a century after Jonah went there and the city repented), God would send a devastating fire to the city. Nahum was a prophet around 650AD. Cool, eh?
This is a tablet that was found that talks about Noah and how a flood came to destroy the earth.
This is all in walking distance from where I live! Better take advantage of it!
Capturing Camden High Street on a sunny day
Camden Market is known as the most popular tourist attraction in the UK. In the summer it averages 300,000 people on the weekends, but even during a weekday in the winter, the streets are still packed in areas.
Goodbye Mono
Goodbye Mono! I am so thankful that you are gone from my body and I can get back to serving in Camden fulltime! I know I learned a lot through these 2 months of being in bed, and I am thankful for how I saw the Gospel through it. But I can't say that I will miss having Mono! It is good to be up and out in Camden!
I did a hike a couple weeks ago while on a prayer/ministry trip in northern England. My favourite moment was lying flat on my stomach and sticking my head up to the edge of a big cliff, with the wind pelting hard against my face, and yelling at the top of my lungs in excitement and thankfulness for energy and strength to finally be outside!! This is me yelling into the wind. Not the most flattering photo, but it captured this happy moment!
I did a hike a couple weeks ago while on a prayer/ministry trip in northern England. My favourite moment was lying flat on my stomach and sticking my head up to the edge of a big cliff, with the wind pelting hard against my face, and yelling at the top of my lungs in excitement and thankfulness for energy and strength to finally be outside!! This is me yelling into the wind. Not the most flattering photo, but it captured this happy moment!
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