Greeley, Colorado and that summer I joined a competitive soccer team. She was one of the first people my age that I met. I played my last game of
soccer with Aubrey our senior year at Greeley Central High School. Many of my
fondest memories of soccer include Aubrey.
Aubrey and I took two mountain bikes, mischievously, on an a little trip around
the Vail golf course until a man on a golf cart came and told us we had to get
off. That was all Aubrey and I could talk about for about a month. I remember
laughing so hard my entire body hurt. Aubrey had such a great way of making
people laugh and smile. She was such a happy-go-lucky girl and I admired her love
and zest for life. Since graduating, I haven’t talked to Aubrey, which saddens
me. What I have seen is that she worked really hard to get through college at
CU, she continued to pursue her love for art, and is teaching and enjoying yoga
(thanks facebook). I wish I could sit down with Aubrey and catch up.
in Chanthaburi, Thailand, I read that she had gone missing. She has been
traveling around in Asia, teaching yoga and learning eastern culture and
thought. She left from Kathmandu on a journey and has not returned. It is now
May 11, 2010. She was supposed to return to Kathmandu on May 1st.
The Lord has been stirring something fierce in my
heart ever since I read the news. I do not know much about Aubrey and where she
is spiritually. All I know is that the Lord has spoken pretty loud and clear to me that
I need to pray. I need to respond in love. I need to get the message out that
she hasn’t been heard from in 10 days. I need to get people praying for her
protection and her safe return home. I wrote an email to Aubrey’s parents today
at 16:35 (Thailand time). In that email I prayed for her safety and that the
Lord would have Aubrey contact her family within 24 hours. My prayer is that
Aubrey will in fact email or call someone back in the states by 16:35 May 12,
2010 (Thailand time). I am praying. I am believing. The Lord is telling me that
I need to pray, not only for Aubrey’s safe return, but also for His glory to be
known in this situation. He is telling me that if we pray, His Kindom will
come! I’m praying in faith…
Matthew
7:7 “Ask and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find. Knock and the
door will be opened to you.”
Mark
11:24 “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you
have received it and it will be yours.”
John
16:23-24 “I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my
name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will
receive and your joy will be complete.”
Hebrews 10:23 “Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we
profess, for he who promised is faithful.”
Aubrey’s missing. Will you intercede on her
behalf? She needs your prayers. She needs His hope. The love of the Lord is
pursuing her with a force that is to be reckoned with. I pray against the
strongholds that are preventing Aubrey from seeing and experiencing His love!
“Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for
he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!”
