Sorry for the lame title yet again this week! But my mind just cannot come up with anything creative.
So it’s that time of the week again, blog day, and you’d think I’d be more excited but I hate being forced to sit down and write. I could just skip and not write a blog, but that would leave all of you; my family, friends and supports hanging, and I just couldn’t do that to you!
This week seemed to be a little more difficult for me. For the majority of the week I was fighting off a sickness, what I believe might have been the starts of mono again. I spent a couple days in bed and then thought I was feeling better on Friday so decided to go out and do some things, by the time it was time to leave for Shabbat my body was exhausted. The worst part is that I had to walk to where we have Shabbat. What normally takes about 30 min to get there took Bambi, Ralph and myself about 45 min because I was so exhausted. When we got there I was ready to collapse. I sat on the couch in a daze for the first part. After we ate I curled up into a ball and practically fell asleep. I was told I could leave and what originally I thought would be a drive back ended up being an hour walk.
Saturday my team left me in bed and went to Masada and EnGedi. I’m really sad that I missed out on this experience because I was really looking forward to it. Ashley Weaver, Lyndasy, and Martha came into my room to pray for me an hour or so after my team left. Let me just tell you that it was a powerful prayer and there was so serious Holy Spirit in my room! After they finished praying my side was no longer hurting. They left me laying in bed to rest. After awhile of laying there and no longer feeling tired and then realizing my throat didn’t hurt I decided to get up! And then it hit me Jesus Healed Me!! That’s two healings for team Mosaic in two weeks!
We went to the Holocaust Museum on Sunday and that was a pretty draining day. We left around 8am to head to Jerusalem. We got stopped at a check point, where one of our bus drivers, the driver who was driving me, got arrested. We waited for almost 3 hours and then a new driver came. We got to another check point where we were redirected again. We ended up driving through Bethlehem, which we were told NOT to do because it is not safe, but that’s the only way our drivers could get through. For those of you that don’t know Bethlehem is in Palestine territory. We finally made it to the Museum at about the time we were supposed to be leaving the Museum to go see more of Jerusalem. So what was going to be a half day tour of the Museum and a few hours in Jerusalem ended up being an hour to tour the Museum and then returning home.
So that was the happenings of this week. I know it’s not much but it’s better than nothing! I want to leave you with something I’ve read a couple times, it’s from a bookmark that Liz has from her church at home.
Quit Living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at Death
Set God-Sized Goals.
Pursue God-ordained passions.
Go after a dream that is destined to fail unless God intervenes.
Keep asking questions, Keep making mistakes, Keep seeking God.
Stop point out problems AND become part of the solution.
Stop repeating the past AND start creating the future.
Stop playing it safe AND start taking risks.
Expand your Horizons. Accumulate experiences.
Enjoy the journey.
Find every excuse you can to celebrate everything you can.
Live like today is the FIRST and LAST day of your life.
Don’t let what’s wrong with you keep you from worshipping what’s Right with God.
Burn sinful Bridges.
Blaze new trails.
Criticize by creating.
Worry less about what people think and more about what GOD things.
Don’t try to be who you’re not.
Be yourself.
Laugh at yourself.
Quit holding out.
Quit holding back.
Quit running away.
CHASE THE LION.
