Toronto Unpacking

I must commence the verbal unpacking of the Toronto trip now, because the rest of this week is going to be crazy Holy Spirit, revival of a nation crazy. I thought my mind was blown after this past trip only to step into an even higher high after getting off the airplane last night. God really does mean "glory to glory"!!

First of all, you must go and visit Akiane's website. She is a child prodigy not only in art, but in poetry. She and her family were total atheists until God took her to heaven and imparted to her the gift of art and creation so that she could impart God's love to the world. Now she is very saved and walks remarkably with Jesus, being continually given dreams and visions to paint and write about. She prays for models to help her paint and they walk into her house unannounced and uninvited saying that their master sent them... Wild. She's only 10 years old now. So go check out her stuff. And if you like it (which you will) drop her a line. Currently she is getting over 100 e-mails a day from Christians and pastors saying that she is from the devil. How stupid is that? I was shocked when I heard that and very, very saddened. So we need to rally the troops to encourage her and what the Lord is pouring out to the world through her.

I think tomorrow I will post pages of notes that I took at the Prophetic Conference. That will be the best way to share with you what happened. But that was only 3 days of the 15 that I was gone. There was much adventure, much God stuff, much wonderful friendships being made and renewed and much awesome time spent with my brother Geordie and his wife Stefanie.

I think the highlight would be the night we went up the CN Tower. It is one of the modern wonders of the world and it still holds the record for the highest free standing structure on earth. And best of all, you can take a glass elevator up the thing and walk around on a glass floor really, really high up.

I had a dream before I went to Toronto that we all went up at night, so we did that and it was great. You could see the massive city and into Buffalo, NY. You could see all the little cars racing along the freeways. You could see all the way down to the ground and it made you a little dizzy. You could see the strange giant blackness, that was one of the great Lakes that I can't remember it's name.

Later that week we also went to Niagara Falls for a while, which was fun. Until we paid for lunch. I got a Big Crunch from KFC and it was $5.75 BEFORE tax. And it was just the sandwich, not the meal. How insane is that? Stef's soft taco from Taco Bell was over $2.00!! Yikes.

So Geord and I got a Tall Latte from Starbucks (which cost $9.72) and we walked around some more and then left to tour a Winery. We got pretty lost for a while, which was nice because we saw this massive statue that I have been wanting to check out since I was in Toronto last April. It's wild, but I'll talk about that later, I think.

We arrived at the Hillebrand Winery and took the tour and I have finally been taught how to properly do a wine tasting. We tasted a great white wine and THE BEST Ice Wine ever. Of course the make you taste the best stuff so that you go back to the store and buy it for $900 a bottle.

The tour renewed my passion and dream to eventually own a vineyard. That would be a dream come true and just between you and me, I fully plan on making that dream come true. I'll have to hire a bunch of people to do it for me, because I haven't the faintest idea how to grow grapes (well, I know more now then I did before the tour), but really... All I want to do is just own the vineyard.

I looked at some a few months ago on the internet. Prices started at around $2.3 million or so, but one came with it's own authentic castle. I thought that was neat.

Anyway, that's off topic.

I made an awesome new friend who goes by the name of Martin. He's 90 feet tall and from BC. He's living in Toronto for a while and works on the security team of TACF so you can be sure that he has some great stories. I'll probably share those later too...

Also hooked up with Jon Patell again and Mark Lauzon who got back from Australia and England the day before I left. And since the majority of the people reading this have no idea who they are, I'll just stop now. Although, if you want a really great CD, let me know and I'll give you information on how to order Jon's album. It's acoustic, amazing worship that is not your normal worship, but is wonderfully refreshing in new sound.

I'm really starting to ramble uncreatively, so I'll stop now and write more tomorrow morning.

Love to all!