On a journey...

I don’t really have words to express myself, but I wanted to just record the general feeling I have today. We had teaching on Human Trafficking and I feel “messed up on the inside” in a good way I think. It’s good coz my heart is stirred. It’s good coz it’s God’s heart for the injustice and the broken. I don’t quite know what to do with it except pray. And hearing some of the amazing direkt answers to prayer that have been seen in this place, like praying for a country and then receiving reports of victims being rescued out from Human Trafficking, is faithbuilding and makes me realize that prayer works! So, I cried a lot today. And I prayed a lot. And I am wondering where this heart with take me…

I am sat here in the JPR (now if you read my previous entry you will know what this means, but for the unenlightened it means the “Justice Prayer Room”) getting some computer stuff done. It’s cool coz I can type away, yet join with the prayers and worship at the same time (multitasking, it’s an art). Anyways, I was just refleting today on the syndrome of not getting enough sleep, which is kind of the same as not getting to bed early enough. I think the reflection was fuelled by the fact that I only got 4 hours sleep last night (now for you parents with young children that might be a lot, but for me it’s not quite enough). Anyways, I have free will, so it’s kind of my own fault, but it has still made me feel a little bit zombied out today, and I had not one, but two trips to the coffee shop this morning in an attempt to get those caffeine levels up. Still, although in hindsight not the most profitable choice, I did have a good reason for getting to bed late as I was watching the Academy...

I'm sat here at the coffee shop "Higher Grounds" here at the IHOP-KC Missions Base. This is my regular routine, I mean obviously not writing my blog as I sit here, but coming here for a cup of tea in the morning. From my first weeks of having no routine whatsoever, life has come to take on a daily rythm which pretty much stays the same. I usually get up a bit before 5 am (now, don't start thinking I've suddenly become some super-human who can survive on minimal sleep, I do get to bed earlier also!). Yes, I rise and shine before the sun appears, and I leave around 5:45 am to go to the prayer room, getting a lift (or ride as they call it here) with one of the people in my house. I know I should take every opportunity to walk and get in some much needed exercise, but -13 degrees Celsius joined with ice and wind makes me quite happy to sit for 5 minutes in a warm car instead of trapsing for 25 minutes in the freezing cold (I am sure you agree!). I hang out at the pra...

What started off as feeling a big rough on Wednesday morning actually became worse, and I ended up kind of going through the orientation of the course in a bit of a daze and then going home and sleeping all afternoon and night. Today I am just about well, but the whole weekend was spent coughing with a sore throat and feeling generally a bit under the weather. It’s interesting as I realized in the midst of feeling like this that I haven’t really had the flu for years. I can’t remember the last time I was coughing and feeling achy in my body and having a really sore throat (well the throat and diminished speaking ability I do remember from Christmas). I don’t know if it was good or not to be reminded, but when it was to be the way it was it is always good to look for something positive in it all. On Sunday I really wanted to write because I was so excited! But when I started writing I realized that my thoughts were a jumble and they didn’t make sense even to me (well in my head they did...

Yesterday we had a very special visitor in the prayer room. Brother Yun, also known as the “Heavenly Man” was here sharing his heart with us. It was amazing to hear him live and know that he is the same man who supernaturally got out of the maximum prison, who suffered incredibly for Jesus, yet still stands strong with such a passion and zeal for God and a heart for the lost. It was such a privilege to be there, and it brought such joy to my missionary heart. The whole thing was filmed and I think a link is going to be put out on the IHOP website, so if you’re interested let me know and I’ll mail you the link once it’s available. Apart from that I am really well. Well, today I’m feeling a bit rough. Got a nasty chesty cough and achy body, but I’m not dying or anything. It is a bit pants feeling like this on my first day of “school”, but that’s life. Outside there’s lots of snow and a 100% chance of more snow according to the weather forecast (which in my mind means that there is defini...