WOW

There are some days that I can feel God's blessing so tangibly in my life that it is almost as though he is virtually holding my hand. For the last few days I have felt this in such an amazing way that it is hard to explain. "What are you talking about?" you may ask. Well, we have spent all of last week and this weekend preparing for and welcoming the first medical mission team of 2006. There is all of the work that I have to take care of in the house, but Daniel has to line up what villages the team will go to, take notices to those villages, put in a notification/permission to the regional government offices, turn in an application for an import license of the medicines that the doctors will bring in, and then go and get the import license. Basically, a lot of driving, and then, we still have to go back to Prishtina and pick them up. Well, the CV joint on our van started clicking the day that Dan was driving all over the countryside of Kosova, and there wasn't going to be time to get it fixed until today (Sunday). Would it make it until then? Would it quit on us right before we picked up the doctors? Would it quit on us right after we picked them up far from our home? The first day, Daniel prayed right then, and God healed the van...no clicking. The next day it started clicking again, so we prayed, and I felt God say, "it will drive until you get it fixed, don't worry." Why? Because it had to. We needed it. Because we had no other way of getting all the things done that needed to get done without it. And, it did, and now it is fixed, and we were never stranded on the side of the road! And, then this morning, I picked out worship music for the service, and got everything ready. We take our keyboard each week since it is what I know. But, when we arrived at the church, there was no electricity! Something that we in the village, are very used to, but the city normally doesn't have the problems that we do. Plus, the house where church is held is set up on a battery system that charges the batteries when there is electricity, and then runs the house when there isn't. But, they had had such bad electricity that the batteries hadn’t been able to charge! So, there goes worship right?! “Just sing as loud and proud, while I play my drum.” -Dan’s suggestion. God’s suggestion- “go grab a guitar.” HA! Right! I have practiced a whole of three times in the last two weeks, but all of the songs that I had picked out were made up of the chords that I know well! And, I led worship with the guitar, and did pretty darn good for it! Besides the shakes I had from a cup of coffee and nervousness, worship was blessed! My life was blessed! My day was blessed! Wow!