So, soon and very soon ….

Keep praying guys, we really need it!

And all the emails and comments do really tell me that come what may, we will enter into this great adventure surrounded by friends and supporters!  

Trying to be prepared is very hard as we do not know what to prepare for, so if you have the time, pray for us on this very important day.

I have woken up every half hour through the night and Hanna has unfortunately contracted a stomach bug of some kind and has been very ill.

But today we need our top form no matter how we feel. Pray that we will be surrounded and filled by God’s peace and that he will give us the wisdom to ask all the right questions.

Here we go!

Pa-tience ['pā sh ens]
noun.

1. The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble or suffering without getting angry or upset.

2. chiefly British term for solitaire

As we are still waiting to find out about where we are going to be posted we find ourselves living in the twilight zone. It is a place where everyone else have shifted gear and are moving towards a goal but we are still treading water.

We pray for patience!

It was a weird place to be as a spectator. I knew our appointments where not among the brown envelopes on the table, I was nervous anyway…..

Lord I pray for all my friends that they will be catapultet into the most exciting adventure of their lives!

I thought I would repost my NCD links and recourses for you to enjoy!

If you are going to read one book on NCD, I would recommend you to start with Color your world with NCD. Another book that I would warmly recommend is The Threefold art of Experiencing God. That gets deeper into the concept of the trinity in a very helpful way.

The other book that is extremely helpful both for Sermon material and for useful devotional material is the 3 Colors of Love.

The idea of a truly Trinitarian faith I find a revolutionary one, where every aspect of church is truly immersed in the fullness of the trinity and not unbalanced by focusing on only one aspect of God’s love.

I hope you find these books as helpful as I have.

Hang on a minute, what good is it to be a friend of an omniscient ruler of the universe if He can’t help you locate the keys….

Father, I have lost the keys, please help me find them…. Then I do something strange, I don’t stop and listen, I keep looking I keep rummaging through the children’s toys, I am getting angry and sad. Why would God not help me, is he holding out on me? An hour later, I sigh in defeat. – I can’t do this! As I start working up courage to go tell Margret that I lost yet another set of keys, I feel a stirring in my spirit, my eyes focus and I am looking at my keys, right there on the kitchen counter, under a paper from Angelina’s school.

If I had only stopped and listened from the beginning. If I had only trusted in God’s heart.

I vow to myself, again, to remember that God answers prayer and that I must live that way.

I had my second session in the prayer room last night and just as the first session the hour flew by like no time at all. It was like I hadn’t prayed for years. Something came over me and I ended up just shouting out the prayers and boldly proclaiming God’s victory. I also prayed some foolish prayers for our future ministry like “send me the ones no one else wants”, I know they where prayers inspired by God, but I also know I will come to wish I hadn’t.
Today I fear I will lose my voice. Maybe it is for the best, since I tend to get into trouble when I open my mouth….

The next leg of our Journey has begun and the essay race is back on, we are constantly looking for new ways to study more efficiently and to coordinate our reading with our essay writing….

As time marches on here at William Booth College we are finally getting some of our papers back. Overall we are both doing good but I think that for Hanna the highlight of the month was getting our new testament papers back. I managed to write a “very good” essay while Hanna’s came back as “Very Good Indeed”.
I will no doubt hear about this ’till my hair turns grey, but at this rate that will be sometime this spring.