It's too hard to decide what to blog about this week, so I just want to share a couple of highlights with you. I was able to visit my friend Angel on Saturday. It was a very humbling conversation, as I was able to see how God had and continues to completely answer our prayers for her. This was the most coherent I have ever seen Angel. She is a very wise woman, but when she is in the midst of struggle you can't see that. Throughout our conversation Angel spoke truth over her life and spoke against the life she once lived on the streets. I see change in her. I see God at work. My prayer for Angel is that she will continue to see how the Lord is transforming her life.
The second highlight I want to share with you is regarding a breakthrough at one of our small group Bible studies. Beginning last year, we started meeting with a woman who is in her 70's I would guess. Hmm . . . I'll call her Patience! She is beautiful. We meet with her every week and needless to say she has been through tons and tons. If I could describe Patience to you besides the obvious, I would say she is full of an enormous amount of love. She actually marched in the Civil Rights movement when she was a young girl. Oh she has stories! I love meeting with her, because she poors out wisdom when she talks. She reminds me of a Maya Angelou of sorts. When we pray at the end to close down our time together my friend and I usually pray and that's it. Patience has just never felt comfortable enough to pray out loud I guess. She always says, "na na I don't like to pray out loud" (waving her hands in the air). Well, yesterday I was supposed to be the last one to pray. There were two other people who had prayed before me, so when I finished praying my friend and I quickly said Amen, so Patience wouldn't feel uncomfortable. But before you knew it, our dear friend Patience, so softly spoken, started praying out loud. My other friend and I just looked at each other with huge smiles and bowed our heads quickly. It was hilarious, but at the same time so beautiful.
Hopefully, these stories gave you a little encouragement as they did me. It is no secret at all that our King is working in the hearts of those around us!
Love Deeply
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