yes. yes, He is. this past week was an interesting one. challenging, to put it into one word. but Friday night was so amazing. God really showed up and showed me His raw and awesome power. i don't really want to go into it all, but i was really struggling with some issues and was basically having a pity party for myself all week, and then God broke me, just a crack, and so much healing took place in just one night. i know this is quite bare in details, so if you have a burning desire to know more, please ask. but that's all i'll go into about that for now.
and then Saturday. what a day! what a blessing. let me lay it out for you. so, T. Connie, Laura, and i headed up to Moncton in the AM to check out ABU, a really neat Christian university that Laura may attend next fall. and the guy who gave us the tour went to Providence College in Otterburne (the smallest village in Canada, i'm sure) a couple of years back. so, that was an unexpected surprise. we then headed to drop T. Connie off at the warehouse where the kids were doing up the Operation Christmas Child boxes, and then shopping. at this point in the story, i just want to reflect on how blessed i have been to hang out with Laura so much this past fall. she is the youngest member of "the 4 Bokma girls" (the twins and two cousins that were born within 6 months of each other. Melissa, mentioned in the previous blog, is the oldest.). when we were younger, Rachel and Laura favored each other, whereas Melissa and i were a bit closer. but it has been so good to be more of an intentional part of each other's lives these past few months. and she has assured me that Rachel and i are about equal in her books now. :D. moving right along, we headed on our little adventure, taking time to truly discover the booming metropolis of Moncton, NB. but i'm being a bit sarcastic there. it's not so big. we hit up the mall, did some shopping and got a bite to eat. and we couldn't pass up a stop at the local Timmy Ho's for an icecap. after that, we headed to the huge Moncton Weslyan church for 6 PM, because that was when we were supposed to meet up with our intervarsity group for the Living Christmas Tree production that night, even though it didn't really start until 7:30. of course, they didn't get there until a bit after 7, but that's ok, because the story gets a bit more interesting here. while waiting for the group, we had this random conversation with this woman named Joanne, a member of the afore mentioned church, about things such as epilepsy, and consequently not being able to have kids, the transit system of Moncton, basketball and Oxford, knitting, and the like. really, the list goes on. but the best part of the night was when this one girl walked into the church, and i thought to myself, "i know her!" she was a girl that i went to Providence with last year. Providence is in Manitoba. i live in Nova Scotia, but was in Moncton for less than a day. and here Julie was. so, i ran up to her and we reunited and it was beautiful. she had actually only gone to Prov for less than a week, but then her and her friend had gone back home, so i was curious about her friend Lindsay too. she told me that Lindsay was in the production that night. so, we went down and saw her again. and another lovely reunion was had. it was so cool to see them again! man, i love "coincidences" like that...and the Living Christmas Tree was beautiful too.
and that is my little big story about my blessed weekend.
