Sorry I didn't get this blog up for a while, I had laundry to do the other night and I was sick last night.
So yesterday... pretty normal morning... woke up, headed to the guys, cleaned the guys house, ate breakfast... only this time the boys didn't wake up till way late and Kirk wanted to have a team meeting so we had one without them and then when they got up we headed over to the church for a little prayer meeting with Pastor Jimmy. After that, our plan for the day was to visit the deepest blue hole in the world... Pastor Jimmy had some things to do first so we planned to meet him at 2:30, until then we were gonna just hand out.
Thats what we did for the most part, we hung out, ate, and SOAPed until Pastor Jimmy was ready to go. For a while Anthony Josh and Bethany were playing music at the church together and Ian and I headed to P. Jimmy's to drop some stuff over for Kirk... so while we were over there P. Jimmy asked us to come with him to one of the nearby islands... he owned that island, like many others and has a house that he's working on over there. We got to check it out and it was amazing, all these boardwalks that go throughout the island and really really nice decks, even the house itself... once it's all cleaned out is going to be a really nice vacation spot. Later we finally started getting ready to go to the blue hole.
P. Jimmy makes it over, we all hop into the back of the truck and then take the 30 minute drive to the blue hole. For being one of the deepest in the world... I was surprised that, no one was there. I'm realized a long time ago that Long Island.... is NOT a touristy place. I never thought it would be but just seeing just how much it isn't is surprising to me because there are some really beautiful places on this island. Anyway we went swimming in the blue hole, it was crazy thinking about how far down that thing went, and we were over it... oh man. There were a lot of fish, which was cool; and I got a chance to practice diving just a little bit! I used to be good at it actually, until my ears started giving me serious problems... and you can imagine the pressure at a 600' deep hole. I was a little nervous about being a barracuda... but Pastor Jimmy just keeps telling me that their harmless... yesterday he says "Oh, it'll just smile at ya!".... yea... really. But here's how I feel about the whole barracuda thing anyway.... we've all heard Pastor James' experience with the barracuda, and I see it as we just can't get past it... we've focused on how they tend to attack you while all the islanders here aren't bothered by them at all. P. Jimmy is determined to get me past this fear.
When we get back... we all get cleaned up and then it's dinner time! When us girls were walking to the guys house, Anthony was heading out to pick up food for dinner with Ian. I stood outside and watched as these giant thunder clouds rolled in. Lighting was everywhere, but no thunder. It was the one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I didn't realize it at the time, cause at home storms like that just come up and role away, we don't get many lightning storms. No, these things were getting bigger and heading over. For the next few hours after they rolled over, we just had endless lighting... hitting right over the island, and right over out heads! It was pretty intense.
Anthony gets back and then him and Ian get to work on the dinner... it took twice as long to make cause we had to improvise on finding ways to cook the food. But it ended up being amazing... we had spaghetti, it was enough to feed an army of people, no joke, we have a ton of leftovers. Still, it was super good.
After dinner, we all just sat down together and then Josh suggested that we do SOAPs. We all agreed and after Dionis, Josh, and Anthony shared theirs, Ian and I shared ours. It was cool because ours were all different but then connected too... I didn't think mine would apply at all, but as Anthony shared his, especially the end of his I was encouraged that it totally connected. Anthony talked at the end of his about our relationships with each other and how God told him that He wants us all to be best friends for life after the end of this trip (or to build those kind of bonds).... and it was cool because God was just endlessly talking to me about how He wants to use our relationships with each other and the things that He wants to do in our group etc. Then I shared how that morning, when we had the prayer meeting with Pastor Jimmy, God gave me a vision of how the group of us are a stick... and He is taking a knife and making us into a spear. Well this stick has branches and moss and whatever else gathers onto a stick, so there's work to do and He's cleaning us off and sharpening us, to make us usable. It was cool. Then we had a really awesome conversation about how sharpening hurts, "there's going to be some OW within some of us on the trip," Kirk says. I totally concur. After that we got into a discussion on calling each other out on stuff and what that means and then a little about how we ought to do it in love and not for our own selfish reasons.
Oh and I have to add that yesterday poor Josh cut his hand trying to climb some cave cliff… who knows.. but he was understandably afraid of a shark attack after that and I’m driving the boat away from him at that point…
I know that there was something else I wanted to say on this blog but I can’t remember what it was at all… not at all… This is why I need to make sure I write blogs the day off.. oh well, sorry! I’ll write it later if I remember!
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