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A little update from the warmth and sunshine!

Yes, I did write warmth, and that isn’t written in a “it’s nice and snugly inside” way. It’s actually really warm today. Around 20 degrees Celsius! Not bad taking into consideration that the snow only melted yesterday. So I’m sat here with my laptop on the kitchen counter, perched on one of the high stools. The veranda door is open and I can hear birds twittering away. It’s lovely. Reminds me that I really do believe I was created for warmer climates!

I realised I had a moment, and then realised I hadn’t written on my blog for a while, and so I thought I’d might as well combine the two.

Life is good. The other day we were driving along when 6 or 7 deer decided to cross the road as we were speeding down it. Thankfully we weren’t driving too quickly and could calmly slow down and stop to watch them crossing. It was spectacular- reminds me that we are not in the thick of the city. I’m just surprised they don’t get scared off, but then I supposed they’ve had to get used to traffic and people since they probably don’t have many wildlife places to be anymore.

Today is the start of our 3-day “Passion 4 Jesus” conference and so some extra healing and prophecy teams for me. This morning at our 6-8 am healing rooms session I think we had about double the normal amount of people come. It’s cool when people come in with pain and leave without it because we prayed and Jesus healed. I am excited that people can come this weekend to experience God more and get a deeper relationship with Him. It’s all about building up the church so that we can see His Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.

Other then that I don’t think much has happened really, not that I can think about at the moment anyway. And writing this I must say I am very tempted to make the most of the nice weather and pop out for a little stroll. Thing is here, that even if the weather is absolutely stunning, most of my day is spent inside (and actually the prayer room is pretty cold so I forget it’s warm outside)- but there is nothing like a few sunrays to bring out a smile.

On that note, I shall post this onto my blog and head out.

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