Just Another Day.... WHAT???!?!?!

Well....

Today reinforced my lack of a normal life. For example, this afternoon I went to pray at the health clinic that I pray at. Soon I will be able to make a link to it in this here website, for one is being created! Woo!! Now, a lot of people pray, but I'm not sure a lot of people pray at a health clinic for patients who are sick. A lot of people should pray at places like this!!

We're starting to see some really neat things happen. Two weeks ago we got a miracle right in the middle of a surgery. I think I shared that story here... can't really remember. To make a long story, we prayed for a girl who was going to have major surgery because something nasty was happening in her insides. We prayed, they opened her up for surgery a few hours later and... couldn't find a thing wrong!! WOO-HOO!! I like that.

Then today we prayed for Yvonne who has been suffering from some sort of nasty mystery rash that would come and go. We don't like that, especially with our beloved Yvonne so we prayed. At one moment I felt the Lord come so strong and it was like he was purifying her system of whatever was causing this rash. Right when I was feeling that Yvonne said, "I feel so hot from the top of my head to my feet!" Very often when we pray for people they get really hot when the Lord starts healing them... I don't know why... it's just pretty common. So I am confident this rash will no longer be bothering Yvonne. It was a really neat prayer time.

After this, I hopped in the mighty Mumby Mobile and drove to meet with Faytene and a crew of youth she has been working with this week. We went to speak with MP David Kilgour. For those of you not from Canada an MP is one of our federal government representatives. The people we elect in a national election to represent us. The "MP" stands for "Member of Parliment" which is our national government assembly.

I was very, very impressed with this man. Interestingly, he is the first that Faytene has met with and hopefully I will be joining on a tour this August to speak, pray for, prophesy over as many MP's as we can get our hands on. I hope to be taking part in the first half of this tour where we would do rallies and meet with MP's in Edmonton, Lethbridge, Regina and Winnipeg. That would be over the course of..... one week. Details still need to be finalized. Pray with me that they do.

Once they do then I could be home for a grand total of about five days in the month of August! Weee!! Two days or something like that after the tour I hope to drive on down to Taber, Alberta for a week of street outreach with an awesome church. Help train up their young people and hungry people and go make a mess of the city. It's Mormon central for Alberta.... should be fun! I love Mormons!

Okay... I'm getting off on a rabbit trail.

When we were at David Kilgour's office we met up with some pretty wild people. One guy from India who was the head of some sort of third world rights group, a lady who is one of the leaders of the Polish community in Edmonton. She told us a bit of her story which was WILD. Fled Poland, got thrown in the prision camps in Siberia anyway, somehow survived and fled there, got placed in Uganda in another refugee camp and eventaully made her way to Canada. Now there was somebody with national pride. She said she didn't know if she would make it until she came to this beautiful country, Canada.

We asked what we, as young people, could do and Mr. Kilgour gave a very passioned plea for the young people to get behind the person in government that they most identify with. He said if we as young people get behind that person that they would most likely win because of the pull that young people have now days. He totally recognized it, which was awesome. All his staff in the office were very vocal in agreeing with this point. Another thing he gave a passioned plea for was to call our representatives and ask what the government of Canada was doing about the situation (or shall I say genocide, because that's what it is) that is happening in Sudan. Between 5,000-8,000 are being killed there every week. He said flat out the way the international community is dealing with Sudan is simply another Rwanda and we have time to stop that before it turns into a massive blood bath, further then what it is. Mr. Kilgour was very strong in saying this was an important thing for us to do. Call, or better yet, visit our MP's office to ask and really ASK what Canada is doing. He said if we don't get a good answer to call him up and he'll deal with it.

I went away knowing that this is a man who really knows his place of authority in government and I was very impressed by the ability of one man to be able to really shift and change or at least bring to light situations in the world and that Canada would be able to address it in one way or another. I was impressed by the fact that democracy really is alive and well in Canada, we just need to get off our little behinds and really do something about it. Like talk to our MP's.

Well... at least this August we will be hitting up a bunch of them. But I don't want to stop there. A one time deal isn't enough. If I love my country I need to be more invovled. We can pray and pray and pray, but there is still that whole thing of what are we going to do about it now. It's not hard to become pro-active and from what I saw just today it really does create and effect. Become pro-active with God behind you and look out. This nation can really be changed.

Today really made me want to become more invovled with government. I kept thinking of a group like Watchmen and if each person involved in that group made sure their voice was heard, stood behind their government leader that they believed in, met with their MP's and all that... wow... I'd wager that we'd be light-years ahead of where we are now.

So get involved!! It's not hard. They're nice people. Mr. Kilgour was blown away that he'd have this many young people in his office. In fact he said that he's never had that many people in his office ever. That was both exciting and sad. Exciting because it's starting and sad because... he has never seen that many young people in his office before. There was about 20 of us in all.

I'm really looking forward to the next election now!

And now since I can post pictures, I am going to continue posting some of my most very favorite pictures ever. This one was from my 22nd Birthday. I think this is my favorite picture that I have ever taken. And I will put another little quote by C. S. Lewis. It's from "The Last Battle" which is part of the Chronicles of Narnia, which in my humble opinion everyone simply must read... and often. This is a character named Emith speaking who simply hated Aslan, or at least the idea of Aslan until he suddenly met Him. Emith tells one of the most spellbinding and breathtaking stories in print, I think and it only takes a few paragraphs. The main characters simply stumble upon Emith in the most unusual place and know something has changed the man. He's been searching for Aslan after a rather lifechanging encounter. The chapter is called "Further up and Further In" which is what Alsan and the characters keep saying to each other and they finally get to run into Aslan's country... the place where they've always longed to be for so many years... I like to think about Emith's encounter with Aslan like my encounters with God... I think this picture illustrates it well... enjoy....



"And since then, O Kings and Ladies, I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog..."