I leave on Tuesday for Europe!
The plan is: Fly to brussels on tuesday, stay in brussels
until saturday (meeting up with Klaire on thursday),
take the train to PARIS, where we will stay until the
25th, and then we'll be coming home from Paris.
That's basically it.
We are staying in a very nice hotel, I would
tell you what it's called... but then I'd have to
kill you. It has a view of the Eifel tower,
and it's on the champs elysee!
Amazing, huh?
I'm going to take tons of pictures, Trust me.
This is going to sound weird to some of you,
but my Sister that I am meeting there is battling
some sort of Evil Spirits. It's quite odd, but she
keeps waking up (in Africa) and she can feel
people, or spirits there, and she hears them
talking. So please pray for her as she fights this,
whatever it is. Obviously the Devil is trying to
do something.
The doctors still haven't given Natalie a real
estimate of how long she has, but things still
are not looking so good for her. She had
an operation (I haven't found out exactly what
it was yet), and she can sit up now, which is
good. I still haven't seen her, I really wish I
could ... but I can't. I've tried to get rides, but
no one is available to drive me - including my
mom.
My dad might need surgery. He is having
neck problems and he hasn't been himself
lately. So if you feel like it sometime,
you might just give him a quick prayer.
He tried to call my Dad to apologize and
ask him if he could still be my friend, but my
dad was on medicaton from his MRI, so he
couldn't talk. I really do miss his friendship.
My dad asked me if I missed him, and I said
"Yes, I really miss his friendship, but I've come
to terms with the fact that we can only be friends."
I just wish that I could go back to when we were
best friends, before he told me that he liked me ..
and before I told him the same thing.
However, I took the risk knowing that
something like this could happen ... and it did.
I haven't decided if I would risk something like
that ever again in my life. I don't know.
I guess I'm kind of ranting right now -- Sorry.
I'm ready for Europe.
I need to get away from this place.
Right now there are just too many memories that
are still so fresh in my mind. I need to take a break.
Everywhere I go, everything reminds me of something
or somebody that I'm losing/lost. I can't handle this for
too much longer.
I have found that through everything, God holds my hand.
He is really my best friend, and I love him so much.
I'm not just saying that. I feel him. I see him in everything
I do, everything that happens - even though
right now everything is kind of rotten, I can see his
plan unfolding. Maybe I won't see the whole picture
for awhile ... maybe I'll never really see it or
understand it, but I know that it's there - and I know
that God has a hold on my life, and that's so much more
than I could ever ask for.
My faith has never been stronger.
-Karolyn-
africa
