Thursday: I woke up and began getting line after line after line for a poem. "Love Poem" I have never had anything like that happen before where God just lays on my heart something, and gives me such insight. It was simply amazing! This brings me to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAPwaya9t5w
Friday: I went to street level and was totally stressing about Saturday. To the point I could hardly talk to people. I felt like I was going insane, and I began getting panicky, and so I stuck with just praying and praying and praying and praying until I FINALLY got my nerves calm just as we were about to leave lol good timing right? =P
Saturday: I met up with the drama team and we all went to perform at a coffee house in Chippewa falls, WI a 2.5 hour drive in a seven passenger Van all seats full, PLUS equipment.. THAT was a fun trip =P We got there, we set up, and we began going over our dramas. and Might I say our team did SO well! I am SO proud of them!! =D I performed my poem, and I thought it was good, but I hadn't expected this reaction... As soon as I stopped I looked up and noticed people were totally silent, and just staring at me.. I first thought, "Did I make a mistake??" when It broke with applause, and i noticed tears down many peoples faces. When I was done requests for the poem came like an overwhelming flood. God certainly knew what he was doing when he gave me the words!!
Monday: I went down to help lead an Urban Immersion with Good in the 'Hood, we had about 10 middle schoolers come down with there two leaders, as well as 6 Good in the Hood volunteers(My dad, myself, Jake, Anna, Brandon, and Dustin) Afterwards, we finished the event earlier than planned, so the group that came down went home 30 minutes early... we began to clean up, My dad, and Brandon went downstairs to do a supplies check, Anna, and Jake went upstairs to put stuff in the fridge, and I stayed on the main floor, as Dustin left the building... suddenly out of nowhere we begin hearing gunshots. I walk towards the door when a bullet flies through the door a few feet in front of me, and through 2 walls, I notice Dustin running back to the door, Yelling "GET DOWN!" Jake who happened to be on the steps at that moment pushes the door open, and runs past me downstairs to my dad and Brandon.. I remember Anna upstairs, and run up there, she begins crying, as she and her husband(brandon) are intending to move up there(because its an apt) in a few weeks, and this was a HUGE reality check for her. I begin praying out loud over the situation and whats going on, when we hear the guys, quite literally RUNNING up the stairs in a panic(they realized we weren't downstairs and feared for our lives a few minutes after Jake and Dustin made it down =P)
Funny thing though I never once panicked... I recognized what I needed to do, and just did it.. I don't think I have never been more calm in my life, and more sure of the fact that I NEED to be in the city working! There are so many hurting people, and I NEED to stay active there where so many people are giving up and seeing it as a lost cause.
Lets just pray my mom sees things that way before she makes a rash decision to pull us out of any activities relating to the inner city =P
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