My few days back in Canada have been full already! Purchasing a vehicle, finding a laptop to carry with me, and opening a cell phone account. I have again all the technology I need to head off on my travels.
The joy so far has been the sharing i have done with friends and supporters. A former workmate, the missions committee from my church in Kamloops, the ladies from KEFC over lunch last Monday, and at an evening care group on Sunday. In just these few short days I have been encouraged to hear what God is doing in the lives of these people that I haven't visited with for two years - prayers answered, faith deepened and faith challenged. I now wear a wrist band to remind myself to pray for Payton and his fight against leukemia.
And I have been challenged as well in my own walk with the Lord. The trials that have brushed many lives over the last two years. And how God has been faithful in everyone of these situations.
As well as all the visits and reconnections made so far, I have finally, I think, come to realize that I am back in Canada. It all came together yesterday when the young male deer flashed into my sight and my lane on the highway as I traveled home. The brakes were activated and my breath gasped as I narrowly missed hitting him. As I finished my journey home, thanking God that the new vehicle I was driving wasnt damaged, I realized that I really was back home in Canada and not still in the Philippines.
As I drove I made my list -"You know you are back in Canada when.." Here are the ones I wrote yesterday.
1) You know you are back in Canada when the animal that runs in front of your vehicle is a deer and not a cow or goat.
2) ...when you realize that it is self-serve at the gas station and not full serve after sitting for 10 minutes.
3) ...when you realize that you haven't used the car horn yet. (Does the car even have one??)
4)...because it's not Jollibee on every corner but Tim Horton''s coffee.
I'm sure I will find other examples to add to the list as I settle in over the next weeks.
I will be sharing in Merritt, BC this Sunday and then travel East to Calgary this next week.
Thank you for praying.
Blessings,
Barbara
Post Praises:
1) That I didn't hit the deer that crossed in front of me. I was traveling 80km. It would have been a mess!
Post Prayers:
1) For safe travels as I begin this weekend
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