He loves me, he loves me, he loves me…
This blog will be one very near and dear to my heart… I will try to share my heart with you through these words on a page but know that the significance behind it runs deeper than words I can explain…
So let me start from the beginning…when I moved home last July I felt very alone as I left all my friends up at UF and moved home to St. Pete where I didn’t know anyone. I longed to be around people my age to fellowship with and grow with but for what seemed like forever I was alone. During this time I spent a lot of time downtown sitting by the water and at the beach talking with the Lord. Through these times spent together the Lord spoke to me so much about His faithfulness in my life and that he would always be there showing himself to me and taking care of all my needs if I only trusted in Him and his will for my life. He used dolphins as his sign to me, as every time we were together he would show them to me, and through them he taught me many things. Although you cannot always visually see dolphins, except for when they surface, it doesn’t mean they are not always there…”There will be times in your life child you may not always understand and you may not always feel like you see what I am doing in your life because things seem so confusing and hard….but I am with you always. And as the waves never cease and continue to come, so my love for you is never ending and will wash over you each morning…have faith child, I will be by your side everywhere you go around the world and I will continue to show my faithfulness in all nations” 
Right now as you read this blog you may not hear music, you don’t hear the radio waves going through the air right now because you are not tuned into them, but does that mean there are not radio waves being sent out all around you? No. You just aren’t on the right station. This is sometimes what happens with God. It isn’t that God is not speaking to us, we just may not be tuning in to hear him. Just like with the dolphins, God taught me just because you don’t see them all the time your belief in them and knowledge they are always right there in the water does not cease. Many times our flesh wants to understand every little thing happening to us and see where God is taking us…but God has taught me about not needing to “see” with human eyes all the time and have faith in not seeing and even when I have trouble tuning in to what God is doing, he is always working and he is always right there.
Dolphin toilet seat
Even month since I have been out on the race God has been sending me dolphins in the craziest of ways it has been absolutely ridiculous. I don’t have pictures of all the ways but here are some of the stories…really upset one night in Ireland God sends me a random guy to come and talk to me holding a huge blow up dolphin, upset on the bathroom floor head in hands not wanting to get up and overwhelmed with emotions, look up and there is a dolphin toilet paper holder, stuffed animals seen during house visits, divine appointments with people wearing dolphin necklaces, dolphin toilet seats, God telling me to go over to a sandbox and not questioning him going over to it and sure enough dolphin toy, dolphin shower curtain at the church we stay in Moldova, the children I felt the most drawn to wearing dolphin jackets, dolphin nightgown on a 92 year old woman we visited, dolphins in grocery stores, dolphin snow globes, and real dolphins in Ireland…the list goes on and on.
This one the Lord said walk over to that sandbox and I did and you guessed it…Dolphin!
It has been one of the most amazing things on the race and in the places that I find the dolphins I am never looking for them and many times these countries have never even seen dolphins and don’t know much about them. It has been one of the coolest things on the race and just one of the ways the Lord reminds me of his love and faithfulness to me and also for the nations. It is so special each time that I see one and they make me smile and smile. This is just one way the Lord continues to love on me throughout times where I am far away from home and everyone that I love He shows me that I am never alone and he is always right there with me.
Dolphin snow globe
Our translator Peter, who is one of the most amazing people I have ever met, said to me yesterday, “You know it just amazes me the way God always is showing you dolphins everywhere…he must really love you.”
The shower curtain where I am staying
I smiled and thought he does doesn’t he?…he loves me, he loves me, he loves me
J God has blessed me so much on this mission trip and it’s only month 4…God takes care of all my needs each and every day and I am always overwhelmed by his faithfulness in my life. Give God a chance to show you how much he loves you today and wait for him to provide you with what you need…you will be amazed to see how he works!
Grocery store
This precious Babosca (grandmother) named Zeena was wearing a dolphin nightgown
the day that we went to visit her on a house vist to encourage her and spend time with her 🙂
Love you all, praying for you always.
