saturday's swirling spiraling spinning sequence of stimulating sentences
I feel like if I don't blog for a day I disconnect from the whole world. Mah.. not true. Today was a beautiful day off.. the first one that I've had since I've arrive. Instead of doing nothing like I should have I got up super early and rode the bus for a half hour to the tim hortons and read for two hours.. IT WAS WONDERFUL!!!!!! The book "Velvet Elvis" by Rob Bell is really changing me. You should read it if you haven't. I met another church army officer today..Ian Gibbs. He picked me up and we drove an hour to a place called Duncan where I met some Anglican youth leaders in the Diocese. I guess they meet with Ian every so often to plan and have lunch and talk. It was funny.. the same old anglican "church stuff" goes on back home as it does here. "Services aren't relevant..there isn't enough money...the priest doesn't support youth ministry." It was a good afternoon though and I was happy to meet some people and have conversations with people other then the bus driver. So things here are going good. I'm going to try out a church tommorrow..I ran into a guy yesterday while I was on a bike ride (God set up or what?) and he had Christian music blasting from his car and I asked him if he knew where a particular church was. It turned out that was his home church. He gave me directions and we chatted and then he prayed for me. It was one of those weird God moments.. I had tears in my eyes cuz I don't think that man knew just how much he had blessed me in that exact moment. Something so simple as a 30 second prayer goes a long way when you're all the way across the country and you know no one and nothing is familiar-- there certainly is peace in knowing you're with the right people and that you have family in the Body. So I'll be checking this church out tomorrow.. I don't know much about it. I listened to some online sermons and have been through their webpage a couple times.
I need sleep..I'm almost finished velvet elvis for the second time for those who know what I'm talking about.. it's messing me up good this time. I'm being remade. Goodnight...
