A Journey!

"TELL ME WHAT IS IT YOU PLAN TO DO WITH YOUR ONE
WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE!!"Mary Olivier

I guess thats what Lisa and myself have been asking ourselves a lot lately, what is it Jesus wants us to do! I have been learning that, God is really bigger then i can imagine or even comprehend at times. I have been walking an interesting 3 weeks. It has been a change from the busyness I am used to but its been a huge huge resting time and spending time getting to know Lisa, surprise surprise i actually did not know Lisa that well!! It was definately a divine God appointment for me to be here! As Lisa said the other day which made me laugh, she prayed before she had gone to Africa, that God would send her a friend, well little did both of us realise it would be one from across the world, yip out of all the people in america God decided that a South African will do, well as Lisa puts it a crazy South African princess! YAY!! And this princess is having such fun. So i am going to begin with all the intesresting things I have been seeing and then go into telling about what God is doing in me more and more each day. I realise this trip is God just showing me that I can have fun and enjoy Him and see USA because its been a dream of mine! So God piles all of himself into Lisa and myself and says ok go have fun and see all you like and watch Me do the miraculous along the way!!

So the other night at 12pm we switch our clocks forward to make it 1am and then we call it day light saving! that was weird i have to say! Never in my life have i had time pass so quickly, was strange everytime you look at the clock and you think to yourself, well actually its not really that time its an hour fast but we kind of believe its the time on the clock! yip besides the fact that i was already in a time zone, it changed even more when we decided to save some light and switch our clocks!!
Interesting things i have had to eat while being here.......
Pumpkin pie - its for desert believe it! and served with cream! was strange to think i was eating pumpkin for desert but as i tasted it there was no turning back, it was yummy!!!!
PEEPS - marshmallows with some sugar coating that look like chickens, a favourite in this place around easter, they were actually very yummy and aaddictive, but I was told to save one so we can go blow it up in the microwave, the things we do for fun here! check out the website it will add to just that little bit extra humour to your day! - http://www.peepresearch.org/
............will keep you posted of any more interesting things i get to eat in this big world i am living in!!

We went driving to Multnomah Falls - wow was incredible, but along the way we got to see some yard sales, interesting stuff, the one we followed the signs and kept following the signs and kept following the signs, we got there and it was in the middle of no where really, it was not as exciting as we expected considering we drove a while before getting there. but the other one we stopped at, we bought a movie - the matrix, for only $0.50, hey thats less then a dollar, which in SA Rands is about R3.50......! And Lisa with her classic bartering skills got a purple mug thrown in for free! So after all that we headed off to see the falls!Multnomah Falls is the second highest year-round waterfall in the nation. The water of the Falls drops 620 feet from its origin on Larch Mountain. I just stood in amazement, realised this is just another one of Gods beautifull creation tricks that He exposes us to to see that He is one big creative Daddy! follow the link below to see some pictures if you want!!! http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=GGLR,GGLR:2006-16,GGLR:en&sa=N&resnum=0&q=Multnomah%20Falls&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&tab=wi
and while we are on the topic of mountains we got to go see the Movie "The Alps" it was previewing at OMSI (Oregan Museum of Sicence & Industry) - Lisa's cousin works there and got us in and we also got a behind the scenes tour of the musuem, was so interesting to see what goes on behind the curtain of a museum, kind of reminded me of the movie - Night at the Museum, but nothing came alive and tried to kill us, good thing! so back to the movie - this guy wanted to climb the Alps and it was filmed, but the movie theater we watched it in was a big dome, so the movie was extra emphasised, felt like I was on top of the mountain at times! Was seeing the height of Gods creations and realising that we all have the strength of God within us to do more then we can dream or imagine, and how Gods love is deeper and higher then those mountains can ever be!!

DRIVING - its on the wrong side of the road!!! - but i am getting used to it, i braved driving the other day, actually its not that bad, i just have to remember that i need to be using the right side of my brain and not the left!!! And actually it works and have gotten used to it, now i dont feel like cars are going to drive into me, aaahh!!

Whats God been doing you might be asking?? Well here are somethings on my heart that i will share!
As i was driving around the other day, and also walking in the actual city, i was suddenly just overwelmed by the fact that actually I am seeing this country for real, its not a dream or me watching it in a movie anymore, this is real life! I then felt God say that all that i dream for and hope for in Him and in HIS WORD is true and real and can be lived out! And it was such a yes cry within me and I saw the difference between watching something like a movie and actually living it out! I dont know about you but I am frustrated alot that we dont get to walk out what the bible says, and when we read it, it can begin to become just like a story and that we begin to see it as a story, so challenge I am to really believe all that is said in the word and really live out Gods heart! I know i want to see all that God has for me, i also know i need to believe all that God has for me! My normal life has been shattering more and more each day, God did a lot of shattering of my life and ideas when i was in Mozambique, but wow is he doing it even more here!

Lisa and myself have been praying a lot and God really shows up and has been taking us on a journey of installing in us confidence and hope! I believe that as we have just been longing for more of him and resting and being as He has told us we have come across part of Gods heart that is new to me! I know God wants me to rest but I think the resting i know and Gods resting is two different things! so i have decided to follow Gods resting, mine is to much work! so We have spent a few nights up praying, and now if we dont pray for a few hours a day i feel like i am missing something. I have a hunger in me that is reaching deeper depths then i have ever known to just touch Gods heart! and feel what his heart is for more and more people! my longing is to meet more strangers on this journey and be able to minister Gods love to them, in what ever form that comes in!

At the moment it feels like I am hanging on the edge of a cliff, and am excited on one hand that I cant wait to see what God is going to do in me and through me, but on the other hand i hve to admit its scary! My reliance on Jesus is growing more and more, and I know that He has brought me to this place of absolute desparation that if He doesnt come through for me i am actually dead! Its kind of scary but so freeing as its not up to me to do anything! Thats the resting thing I am talking about!!!!

So where to from here, well at the moment I am in Oregon, Lisa and myself have kind of some idea of where we are heading! The first part of the trip would be down towards california! so that might be happening next week! but will keep you all posted, Jesus goes before us we just have to follow! We want to see more then just the beauftiful landscape that God created, we want to see some miracles along the way!! Divine apointments!!!!


Love you all!!
Catherine

Summer to Winter!

Hey all!

After spending my last few hours having a swim in the Sea in Cape Town, i headed off to the airport to endure one very long flight!
i have changed season in just 2 days, never thought that could happen did you?

So i spent 16 hours on a plane( wow lets just say my butt really well aquinted to the seat) then io arrived in NEW YORK(never thought i would say that) i had a whole day at the airport, was really long but interesting. it was so funny i looked outside and there were so famous yellow taxis you see in the movies, i alsmost ran outside and took a picture, but thought i would try behave myself! felt like a kid! I then headed off to portland,Oregon on another flighjt of 5,5 hours. i cant really remeber the plane taking off i was so tired i fell alseep as i sat in the chair!

I saw my friend at the airport, was good to be able to speak to someone! got my luggage and headed off to her house. yip its cold out here! but what an incredible place, am living in a forest, and there was even some snow on the ground when i arrived! ok so now am sepnding a few days adjusting mysself to the difference in time and weather. its great here and amsure God is going to do amazing things! but for now i am off to bed and you are probably waking up, weird i think!!!

Love you all
Catherine