Last week...
What a week it has been. I'm going to go ahead and blame it all on the fact that my dad is back..heehee. Just kidding, of course, it is wonderful to have him back again to accompany me safely to OCF and back again when it's late night...and also just for various conversations that we have. Unfortunately, he's off again on Wednesday to good ol' Greenland, who (bless them) have been showing their enthusiasm for his return since last year. I guess it's back to "cold cuts and cheese" for my mum and I. =0)
What happened in my busy week last week? Well, I was working on Monday evening, Tuesday evening was an extra Bible study (preparing for an evangelism workshop on Friday night), Wednesday was kinda my day off as far as I can remember, Thursday was a good dinner out with some of the team members from Forest Hill and Frida, of course was OCF. Maybe it was the pressure but I was feeling especially annoyed/upset.... on Friday mostly because of some misunderstandings with my travel card and to cut a long story short, I was made to pay a £20 fine for having the wrong card, which actually wasn't but I was too tired to argue much and happened to have the money in my purse.
When I got home, pretty much humiliated from the whole experience from having about 6 officers watching me pay a fine and exhausted and well, honestly, not a very happy camper, I thought to myself, "great, I wonder if I'll still have to go and share how wonderful my week is going". If you can imagine it, I was trying to convince my dad to let me stay home that evening while at the same time knowing that OCF usually does a good job and helping me refocus on the healer of all wounds. (When the music fades all is stripped away...turn your eyes upon Jesus...and the things of this world will grow strangely dim). Of course, in the end I went (my dad's very good and convincing me to do things I wouldn't normally do) and was blessed by the fellowship of other Christians as well as, it must be said, the wonderful time is Praise and Worship.
Something else I'm really quite proud of, is the fact tat I've finished reading through Genesis...I know it doesn't sound like much but when you're going through some of the geneologies and trying to leanr something from them, it does feel a little tedious. In any case, I've really learnt a lot in the last week from my daily readings and time spent with my God. I'm now reading about Moses...learning about the name of the Lord... "I AM". It's so amazing isn't it? I've had a couple of times where I've wished that there was someone around to share this with though Christians my age around me, that I know well enough, are sometimes quite rare. I think this has really taught me more about relying on God and His presence and company.
Well, thanks for some of your emails and stuff, it NEVER fails to be an encouragement and blessing to me. By the way, my family and I are going to the Logos 2 at the end of March with a group of students mostly from Nottingham (Sadly, no one from OCF and, can you believe it, only 1 guy out of like 8!) so we're really excited about that and praying in advance for those involved and for all the things that will be happening then. I think we're still hoping and praying, even though it is a little late, that at LEAST one more guy will come along so that the guy already coming won't be TOO alone and surrounded by too many "over-powering" females. At least my dad will be there to give some support. =0) Anyway, yea, I think we would really appreciate your prayers for this trip in particular since it's the biggest one we'll be taking so far this year (11 people including my dad, mum and myself). Pray that God will already be preparing us and our hearts as well as those that we speak to and of course, also for the ship and it's ministry and as it travels towards Malta in the coming weeks. By the way, if any of you (in England) are interested in joining this little group, please email myself or my dad REALLY REALLY soon. The costs are about £200 in total (flights, accomodation, breakfasts and dinners) and the dates are going to be from the 24th of March till the 2nd of April.
As usual, I'm sorry if this "email" has gone on longer than YOU have hoped but really, if you didn't want to read it all, you didn't have to so thanks for getting this far.
Because He is Worthy,
Debbie
