I don’t know if I mentioned this previously, but I booked my ticket to London with my friend a few weeks ago. God is really keeping me because by an amazing grace, we got the flight for more than $1000 less than I was originally quoted. We are going to London first then we will be going to France and Italy is still up in the air. Besides the amazingly cheap flight, we managed to get free accomodation at a friends apartment on the gardens of the Sacre Couer! =))) Very excited. I wanted to go to Lourdes so much but it is so expensive and I am not going to have as much money as I thought I would which is unfortunate. :/ but I know when I go there and see how beautiful Europe is, I will probably be just as quick to go back.
It occurred to me this morning in church just how many people need prayer. I mean, on thursday I met a guy who is struggling. I admired his courage and his fightingpower and his faith. I decided though that I need to pray for him more — this guy needs a lot of strength. And my bestfriend, she is here in my state at the moment and she also needs saturation of prayer. I love her to bits, like a sister and I have known her for 20 years or more… and she is just such a beautiful girl who is going through a very long season of struggle. I have a bunch of other people who I know are specifically going through things that I want to pray for but it gets so overwhelming. Sometimes I try to condense it by lifting up the intentions of family, friends, people that I come in contact with and people who do not yet know God, but it seems too… easy. I want to be more specific, but how do I fit all of those things in to my day? I considered writing a list with my friend and emailing it to him so we can pray for these specific things daily… but then I thought maybe I could open another wordpress and write the list and have others add their specific prayers and allow people to post as well… I want the people in my life — the ones who need very specific prayers to be absolutely saturated by Gods love for them…. as I am sure all people reading this would feel…
I’ve had a great time with my friends recently. You know when you just know God is present? I had that the other day. I drove all the way to the city and picked up my bestfriend. We went to get sushi rolls and then I took her to a Marian Centre just so I could pick up a gift for my friend’s new place that we were visiting. My friend was confused and thought we were going in to a bead store (cos they sell medallions for the rosaries I make) so she came in very willingly. We saw the Our Lady of Fatima statues and she began asking questions … what the images mean, and what does “fatima” mean… and I do know the story of Fatima, but I knew I wouldnt have been able to tell her off hand… so she then asked the storekeeper who got a nun to come out of the chapel and she stood with my bestfriend (a self confessed athiest) and told her the story… After a few min I expected her to get bored… but 40 minutes later when the Nun finished we walked out and my friend ranted about how amazing the story (true, she added!) was.
We got to my friends house and she told him how amazing the story was … he took us to lunch where we met his friend who has the same struggles as mine. It was just … amazing. He talked about how God has helped him through which is something I just desperately pray that with time she will completely turn her life to. We went to my friends new place to help him paint and stuff. My bestfriend is thinking of moving here to Melbourne and I was just happy that we were surrounded by good people as opposed to the influences in her daily life at home. We are thinking of moving in together after I get home from London… Later in the evening my friend drove her to the city where she was staying with a friend while I stayed back continuing on with the painting and I just had these revelations about my friendship with her. It is no real coincidence that God put her and I – the most opposite people in the world– together. We had so much fun though, we spend our time playfully insulting one another, jibing and making fun… it was just awesome.
I took some photos of her steaming the hideous wallpaper from the walls. We joked it would be the first and last time I would ever see her doing something like that… but wow, she got a lot done in a short time.
haha two goobers… running to get an extention cord not realising the plug was RIGHT THERE!
Anyhow, these are my thoughts for today. It is extremely cold and windy (hurricane-esque winds) today and I am thinking of getting a nice big pot of tea 
