So this will be short.. well for me.
Sunday night I stepped outside on my parents porch and saw the moon. The clouds formed a perfect circle around it, and it was almost full. It was chilly and ominous, but beautiful to behold. In that moment I thought, wow, what moon will I see in the DOminican Republic, and Haiti, all the way in Africa? The scene will clearly be different, but will the moon look exactly the same? What a cool thing to know no matter where I am we will all be looking at the same big beautiful sphere at night!
Time is going by so quickly, too quickly for me to be idle. Pray I will get my massive to-do list completed before I leave thursday morning, so basically everything else i need done in a day. haha. It can be done. I believe it.
I am so excited to be going to see all my besties in NC and Vintage 21 and Church of the apostles, HOly trinity.. But I am also so sad to be seeing Nargiza for the last time tomorrow before she heads home to Russia when I am gone. I also think I am getting a small taste, or better yet a warm up for what leaving will be like. Portland has become my home, and it is going to be so hard to leave our home, my sissy, lena , our other friends, my soup cart, and everything else on thursday. It was hard enough saying bye to my family in albany Sunday. We used to leave all the time for months. Now I am only leaving for a month and it’s hard.. what has changed?
Please be praying for Nargiza as well. She is having some serious financial issues, and I know her family in Russia is struggling financially as well, and on top of that her grandfather died last week. It has been really hard on them all. We went to imago dei to see if they could help her financailly with change for a dollar. I am supposed to call them tomorrow to finally chat.. please pray it works out. I know this would be a great way for her to see the church tangibly be a part of her life and care for her like Jesus would. I know she has been upset, just at life, possibly at God, over her grandfather’s death and I really just want her to see what its like to have a relationship with Christ, not just a one way dialogue when things are going wrong. Pls pls pray.
Lastly, I am talking with Keen, REI, my bank and a couple others about possible sponsorship. This would be a HUGE Blessing… they may even sponsor more than one racer.. big prayers. Also- i am contacting chick-fila in NC about having a fundraising day, as well as several studios, gyms and meredith college to see if I can get some studio/gym time to offer donation based classes to all levels…. hopefully we can all bend and breathe a little together soon. Love you all. Thanks for reading.
xoxo
Rach
