A Day, A Life, & A God to Celebrate

Today started out with a great beginning, I got to the Community Coordinator's office all by myself!!!!! That in itself is an amazing thing usually Sonia has to come find me when I've gotten off the bus at the wrong place. But no, not today, today I got there all on my own.. well and help from the big guy upstairs.

Went to some meetings with Jill Neherny one with a lady named Dude who works with housing New Zealand I hope to start working with her and a program called "Champs" that is keeping the kids from living lives of gangsters. Next we were off to Rawene Center where I will be volunteering next week. The meeting were all well and good I helped one of the ladies from the center write a request for a grant to refurbish the center.

Jill Nerheny dropped me off a bus stop and I jumped on the first bus to pull up. I ended in the city. I had been feeling a bit homesick the night before and it hung over my mentality all day. I decided to try and lose myself in the city. I walked up and down the streets, music blaring inmy ears. I had no goal, I had no direction, I just existed. I walked where my feet led. I was just another person in a crowd of others. Once I'd walked all over one street I'd find a new one walking down both sides gazing over the different shops and people that filled them.

My feet led me to a cafe not too far from the sky tower. It's open doors welcomed me in. I decided to indulge after all I'd walk off my indulgence if it got out of hand. I had a chocolate muffin and an iced mocha. This cafe is unique and offered a free hour of wifi with any purchase. I was able to catch up with my mom and a few friends as I enjoyed relaxing in my non-existant state. A head nodding kind of music played above as a nice breeze blew in from the streets. Horns blared in the background accompanied by the sound of breaks doing their best to not hit the vehicle infront of them, and the sound of busy city folk scampering from one building to another. Even with all of this noice I found peace... my soul felt rejuvinated, like God new that this was just the thing I was in need of. A cute little bird flew in through one of the open doors. I shared my muffin with him and slowly he came closer and closer until the bird was almost eating out of my palms.

I jumped back onto another bus and made my way home as just another nobody on a bus.

Sometimes not existing was the best existance ever.

I ended my day with a nice sit on the roof and some one-on-one time with God. My windows open up to a tin roof that when crossed lead to another roof that have an oceanic view. Laying against the roof with the wind in my hair I felt God's presence and all homesickness was gone. I was where I was supposed to be. I had to be, I was nothing but and Indiana girl with a love for adventure and a need for something more and now... here I am... surround by more "more" than I could ever ask for. More understanding, more meaning, and more insight on my life and who I am.

today is the day, not just another one.