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Date: 15 March 2007 13:41:57
(typed at 10 am, posted at 2pm)
So I am sitting in a café, sipping tea, waiting for my 11 o clock meeting to start, and I thought I would type my blog onto word then copy and paste later on. I could pay to go on the internet now, but the prices they are charging, I would prefer to do it at home on the net I already pay for!
Anyway, ramble ramble. I have decided to pull my current competition. It was not a very good idea, although it did seem like it at the time, to myself and my friend who thought it up. I will continue to think of other ideas and see if we can get another one on the go soon. Back to what I was going to write originally. I sat on the train this morning listening to some music, as you do and a song came on that seems to mean a lot to me at the moment.
Does anyone else ever think that God puts people in the right place at the right time for the right reasons? This morning I did one of those reflecting type things, and was thinking about all the people that seem to appear in my life at the right times. It would seem that there have been a fair few of them!
A few months ago, when I was feeling even more sick than I sometimes do now, and I was going through a really rough time, I sat on MSN with a couple of friends, typing away and having a natter. I really thought I was doing a good job of being the ever cheerful me. I wasn't, and as it got late, I ended up saying to them I wasn't feeling great. I randomly asked them to pray for me. How it works online I don't know, but anyway, the typing stopped and it would seem they did pray. And then one of them started typing, and said that as he was thinking, a song came on. And he wrote out some of the lyrics. Its not often I cry, but I have to admit, sitting in front of my good old computer, the tears fell. The lyrics went like this ....
This girl I know needs some shelter
She don't believe anyone can help her
She's doing so much harm, doing so much damage
But you don't want to get involved
You tell her she can manage
And you can't change the way she feels
But you could put your arms around her
I know you want to live yourself
But could you forgive yourself
If you left her just the way
You found her
I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow
Protection
(Protection by Massive attack)
I guess I could go on about this forever, but there are other people that seem to have come into my life, right at the right time. People who are in my life right now, who seem to have been put there for a reason. People who are supporting me through what I can only say is a time of personal roller coaster rides. I went to my home group on Tuesday night, and during the evening suddenly felt such a sense of belonging and being part of the group, which is something its taken time to feel. I had met someone (another person who has appeared in my life over the last year and who is amazing) for tea to discuss the fact I was going to ask quite specifically for prayer over an issue most of my group knew nothing about, in terms of not knowing that it is something that effects me. And that something is affecting me big time right now. I was worried about their reactions and whether it was the right thing to do or not. But they were amazing. I think my worry about their reactions was irrational, and I am glad I was proved wrong.