Divine romance.

Hello family and friends.  Sorry for the lack of updates.  I've been on a busy schedule of work, studying, working out, swimming, prayer times with spiritual companions, housework, and etc.  

Things have been going well.  The weather has been gloomy and rainy, I'm guessing Vancouver has been the same.  I'm getting better at cooking.  I'm planning on buying a guitar over here.  At work I've been able to do some exercise prescription with head injury clients which has been pretty neat.

I don't know if you've noticed from my photos but the number of saints in Victoria have been decreasing since I came here.  3 families have moved, and pretty soon sister Jean will be going away for a few months.  Which will leave us with just 4 saints who meet regularly.  Despite the small numbers, the meetings have been quite enjoyable.  Everyone is functioning and everyone knows they need to bring their portion of Christ they have enjoyed from the week.  

Jerry and have been joking, pretty soon it might just be us two.  O Lord, but we won't let that happen though.  Next week there will be 20 saints visiting from the Lower Mainland plus 4 of our gospel contacts.  Please pray for this time that the Lord will strengthen His testimony in Victoria!  It's really not that bad here, you just need to visit!

I'll end with some enjoyment from our morning revival on the Minor Prophets:

The Lord went through all the difficult processes to gain and capture our love.  He's the one that stepped out of His glory and put on the lowly form of a man to fulfill His purpose.  He went through the sufferings of human life in order to be fully qualified as our Redeemer, living a perfect God-man life.  He paid the highest price with His own blood in order to wash and cleanse us so we could come to Him.  He resurrected and ascended and now He's in His heavenly ministry dispensing Himself to us, making us the same as He is so we can match Him as His bride!  And what do we have to do?  Simply love Him.  Don't be hardened, drop your concepts, eat that tree, take in Jesus every moment He's so sweet!

Also, I am appreciating what it means to be romantic with the Lord.  It means to be personal and affectionate.  Personal meaning we open and come to Him as we are, and share with Him what is on our heart.  Affectionate meaning we respond in time to His tender love.   And although we may fail many times, it's okay because His love is still eternal and unchanging (Jeremiah 31:3), and He is just waiting for us to respond to Him.  We just need to stop being disappointed about what's in us because the only thing worthy of marriage is the Lord's life in us.

Continue to keep in touch and I hope to be in Vancouver again during the long weekend in November. Much grace to you all.