so we have returned from our capitol adventure...and it was capitol! we got a personal lecture on train safety care of the conductor himself after some antics of a family member that shall remain nameless...then we had quite the party car as new friends stopped by to chat on their way in and out...breakfast with our friend samantha borders...the mlk library...the national portrait gallery....an amazing birthday lunch of indian cuizine....hoppin the metro to our actual destination, fairfax virginia and the home of the lovely willet family. sunday with the willets and all of calvary hill baptist church was great...i had a great time with the youth and kathy had a wonderful chat with the ladies of the church...kathy shared a little of her heart and what is MUCH ministries in the morning and i took my turn during the concert that night...which was fabulous by the way....and after years of threatening to tap dance whenever someone put me in front of people i actually ended my talk with a couple of time steps....in a baptist church of course! they took it upon themselves to bless me anyway and the concert was a huge success...not just musically but they raised over 3 thousand dollars to fund our work in haiti! holy holy! on monday we got to visit more art and history as well as a beautiful place called convergence: a creative community of faith...it has some of the same vision as the marketplace but is reaching out specificially to artists - really cool stuff!
the trip was really good and successful in many ways but for me the biggest thing was the moment that i realized that we had traveled 12 hours on a train to share 10 minutes of our hearts with people who either didn't know us at all or had known me for a week and none of whom had ever seen the marketplace, met the brookses, been to haiti...nothing to see how amazing what god is doing through all of this really is....on the surface it made no sense...and yet....one 17 year old girl - because she is listening to the heart of god - decided to put all this together to benefit this thing she didn't even fully understand...so there i was, and not only was it overwhelmingly fruitful financially....it was so evident that what god was doing with our presence there was so much more and was really just the beginning of what he plans to do...what amazing proof that his ways are not our ways but there is something in the way he moves...something really really great!
now that we are back home it is back into life and getting everything ready before i leave again...this time for haiti!! please pray for focus and energy and the wisdom to put my heart and mind and energy into the right things during this time.
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