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From: corwithani
Date: Mon Aug 3 10:30:49 EDT 2009 Subject: prayer - I'm in boston

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corwithani: update (8/4/09)
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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

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From: corwithani
Date: Mon Aug 3 10:36:09 EDT 2009 Subject: blog address

oh and i mentioned maybe posting a blog later - if i do so that website is http://corismith.theworldrace.org

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From: Laelia
Date: Mon Aug 3 13:25:30 EDT 2009 Subject: oh my!

I will definitely be praying for you and I am so glad the Lord is giving you peace about the situation! It seems like it might have been an excellent thing that the original planes were cancelled...I can't imagine if she got sick on the plane or had to be in the hospitals in a different country. Maybe there would have been insurance issues and her mom would not have been able to come stay with her. This way at least she was on familiar-ish territory to not add to the stress of being sick!

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From: Karen
Date: Mon Aug 3 18:27:51 EDT 2009 Subject: Detours

I agree with Laelia about the better logistics of being really sick in your home country. I'm really sorry you're both missing Ireland. You definitely can go to Ireland at another time in your life, but you can only be there for your friend now ;-) Coincidentally, there's a lot of Irishness to be had in Boston. Just less of the Irish accent!

Maybe your friend has both an insect-bourne illness AND an infection from the bite? That's creepy. Anyway, I can pray the docs figure it out.

Karen

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From: kelsea
Date: Mon Aug 3 20:16:06 EDT 2009 Subject:

Friend, I am sorry that you have had to stay in Boston, but I praise God for how he has given you a warm and merciful heart for the sick! I remember how comforting it was to have you with me in the hospital when I was in rehab. I know that Kimi appreciates having you there now.

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From: corwithani
Date: Tue Aug 4 17:19:53 EDT 2009 Subject: update

hi prayer team,
thanks to all of you who have been praying for the whole situation. I am still in boston, next to my teammate kimi in a hotel room. she was released from the hospital yesterday although ironically they still don't know what the things on her arms are. but they just think that her bites got infected, and that she has a strepp infection on her arms. doctors may call later today with the full results of the biopsy. she's on antibiotics that seem to really be helping and making the bites go down.

kimi's mom was here, but she left a few hours ago to head back to her home in california. kimi and i are now booked on a flight leaving tomorrow night for dublin, assuming kimi's condition does not get any worse between now and then. basically kimi and i are going to land in ireland at 8:45am, meet the rest of our squad at the airport in dublin, and then fly with our squad over to romania at 3:30pm that same afternoon. yup, that will be a crazy long travel day that is for sure.

in terms of how i feel about returning, at this moment i am not sure. i think i just don't know what it will be like seeing everyone again, particularly with my small team. as i said i think in my email a few days ago, there was just such utter chaos between both the situation of having our plane cancelled and the frustrations between each other that i don't know how i will feel when i see them again. my heart longs for communication within our team to be so much better than it was, my heart really desires to love them well, and i want so much for there to be a really powerful unity between us.

please join this battle in prayer with me, because obviously all attacks within our team are the enemy. satan would like for me to believe that these things i desire with my team aren't possible and to give up, so I am asking for faith to truly believe otherwise. i think we all can agree that loving people is just really difficult sometimes, particularly when they think and act very differently from you. but it is possible, and I want it, and will do my best to believe God that He can and will do a great work in us for these remaining 9 months of our trip.

also please pray still for my personal process time, to hear from God what He is teaching me through all of this craziness, as I ask Him many questions about these past few days and why things happened the way they did. pray that my heart would be protected as well, that I could fight the enemy's lies quickly when they come in order to really drink deeply of Jesus right now and tomorrow as kimi and I travel together. pray also that I would know my role on this team, and how to best offer who I truly am to my teammates.

if this email sounded depressing or like I am discouraged, please don't believe that I am. I am just wanting to be honest about my feelings at the current moment about going back. I have absolutely no regrets that I am on this trip, in fact I know that by me staying with kimi I am learning more than I would have had I gone on to ireland 2 days ago. I am definitely moving forward in the journey of becoming who I really am, not doing it perfectly, but learning much more of my need for Him as the trip goes on.

thank you again, love you guys so so much for standing by my side faithfully. I miss you.

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