I have a prayer group that I email every once in awhile while on this trip, and just sent an email to all of them to pray for what's been happening these past few days. there's just been a lot of chaos and the enemy's been attacking, but anyway - here's the email I sent out for you all to join us in prayer (and if you want to be on the prayer email and aren't yet just let me know!). thanks and loving all of you from boston right now!!!!!!
hey there prayer team
so in the past 48 hours there has just been absolute chaos particularly within my small team and another girl named Leigh from a different small team who was on our same flight, supposedly onto dublin ireland. the rest of our squad were on other flights, so they made it over there 2 days ago without any problems.
to make a crazy long story kind of short - our small team and leigh got stuck in boston because our supposed flight was canceled, and there was mass chaos with the airline because almost every flight that night was canceled or delayed so we had to figure out what to do. waiting in lines forever to talk to agents, etc. they supposedly booked us on a different airline that night, but once we got over there we were told that we were never confirmed. so eventually we came to the conclusion to not leave for ireland until sunday (it was late friday night at this point) since flights saturday were totally booked.
.... but then on saturday while in downtown boston, my teammate kimi got really sick really fast and was admitted to the emergency room. she had gotten some nasty bug bites in nicaragua that turned into some kind of mysterious pussy thing that no doctor or specialist here has been able to figure out what it is yet. kimi had a really bad fever and bad body aches because of them.
so there was already craziness because of our team being delayed - what do we do, where do we stay, we don't have a lot of money, why is this happening to us, etc. and then this whole hospital situation was thrown onto it. so basically just chaos was piled onto a whole lot more chaos, and it's been frustrating and hard and communication has been awful and the enemy has been really, really, attacking.
yesterday at the last minute the decision was made that I would stay with kimi here in the hospital in boston, while the 4 people left on my small team and leigh went on to make that sunday flight to ireland. kimi's mom also flew in from california to be with her. so the 3 of us are here in kimi's hospital room, and the rumor this morning was that kimi may be able to be released today since she's responding well to the antibiotics. but even if she is released they will probably keep her around boston for at least a few more days, maybe even a week to be sure that she is okay before she travels on.
our squad is only in ireland until august 6th so at this point it looks like kimi and i will miss that time completely. honestly God's given me some kind of supernatural peace about being here with her, i haven't been attacked with "oh i'm missing on ireland this sucks i am so mad" at all. after that our squad is headed to romania, so we will see what happens. i'm honeslty enjoying the process time from all the chaos, time to just love on kimi, and even slept in a hotel last night and took a bath and had a bed to myself which as you can imagine is super lame.
so know that i am not far from you, over here in boston, and need you to pray against attacks from the enemy who likes to give me anxiousness when there's crazy things like this happening. i don't have any anxiety now that i know that's what i need to fight. and pray for my process time because it's definitely a gift that i want to cherish while i have time away from even just the craziness of being in a large group of people all the time.
thanks so much; i hope to post a blog sometime after getting that needed process time to update people further, and after i have had time to really ask God for his wisdom in this situation. He is without a doubt, i'll say that again, without a doubt, doing a BIG thing in me because of this. I am learning much about myself and leaning into Jesus so much because I am definitely not in control of anything at this point (and I think he wants it that way). and pray for wisdom for all those involved for all the small things that go into the decisions that need to be made.
much love from boston :)
-- cori |