Gotta love the rain.

Again i'm amazed by God's abitlity to work through the bad things in life flip them upside down and turn it into someting beautiful.so the other day was an example of that.I was having a rough day ...so i decided to ask my wonderful newish friend Jen Fry if she'd like to talk.so after puppets i biked to Jen's.Unfourtnatly it was raining amd i got rather wet. But it wasn't that bad i would dry...haha thats what i thought, God had other plans!
So i arrived at jen's and we headed off to the tannis court/base ball field. A great place for a chat.
Well it started raining harder. i meen hard and continued to rain.And at first it kinda sucked cause well we were getting wet. So we decided to yell at the top of your lungs that we " Love the rain" to make ourselfs think that we did ..and it worked.. So we hopped some safety tape and a fense being the rebels we are and played on the unfinished playground.that night we spent almost 2 hours in the pouring rain ,till be were soaked to the skin, Praying at the top of our lungs unafraid of any one hearing. We laughed and laughed it was great. We met god in the rain that night and i will never forget it. Then it got dark and i realised that i still had to bike home.but it was dark and wet so we headed to jen's Got into flannel Pj's and drank mink and had chocolate cookies.It was rather enjoyable. I can now say I LOVE THE RAIN!

This is Mike caines song Come unto me.This song meens so much to me in so many ways.apart from sounding beautiful. i used to fall asleep every night to this song. It's a great promise and is so comforting.it's amazing really it calms me down without fail.It's one of my fav verses.
Also it's important to me cause it remindes me of and awsome memory in NYC.
-->My team was going to Gold water hospital for terminally ill patients.mostly Aids. And to tell you the truth i was scared i had no idea how to relate to anyone there . But god worked through it any way. in fact it was probly greatest thing that happend in NY.any way i was walking through the hall with paul when a man waved us into his room. The man was weak and you could tell it took all his strengh to lift his arms but the first thing he did was raise his arms and say " I love God".The man's name was victor and he was dying from aids. but he was absolutly beaming .we prayed with him then sang this song ( come unto me) it had been on my own and Paul's heart all week and it was great. victor was trying to talk and lift his arms and was so happy. i couldn't grasp how someone that close to death could smile.But wait that isn't even the most amazing part! when we left the hospital we were talking to our guide about our expirences and we told her about victor.She got super excited and then told us that the day befor, the other half of our team had visited victor and he had given his life to christ.When they saw him the first time he was so sick that he wasn't talking and couldn't move. But the VERY next day he was trying to talk and move and he was beaming. What a wonderful God we serve!it showed me how much god can do for someone. So maybe victor won't be compleatly healed (although it's compleatly possible with God)But i think god did some healing that day and not just phycially.



Come unto Me
All you who labour and are heavy laden
And I will give you rest
Come unto Me
All you who labour and are heavy laden
And I will give you rest

For who when he asks
For a loaf of bread
Shall receive a stone
Not from Me says the Lord
Oh not I
For he who seeks shall find

You said come unto me
All you who labour and are heavy laden
And I will give you rest
You said come unto me
All you who labour and are heavy laden
And I will give you rest

Yea though I walk
Through the valley of the shadow of death
I’ll fear no evil
For Thou art with me
Thy rod and staff
They comfort me

I am so close to unpluging my computer and literly threowing it out the window!ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. i SPENT AT LEAST AN HOUR AND A HALF TYPING AND THEN WHAT DO YOU KNOW MY COMPUTER DECIDES TO SHUT OFF!AND GUESS WHAT HAPPEND..YES I LOST IT ALL! AND I AM RATHER ANGRY./.THATS AND UNDERSTATMENT.AND IF YOU KNOW ME I DON'T GET ANGRY VERY OFTEN OR EASILY.
SO I RAN AROUND MY HOUSE FINDING EVERY SCAP PEICE OF PAPER AND PROCEDED TO PUT IT THROUGH THE SHREDDER WELL I DID SOME MANUALLY.tHEN I FOUND THE BIGGEST PILLOW IN MY HOUSE AND THROUGH IT OFF MY DECK SEVERAL TIMES. and amazingly i feel much better now.

So we went to a movie tonight and if you'd like to read the book the Hodge family wrote it's call "106 steps to take if you want to go to a movie" Volume 1 you can find it in your local book store. Oh my. right to clear that up for those of you who don't get it . my family could write a book on every thing we do..every thing has to be so complicated. and as most of you would know i'm not like that at all. Screw the details my new moto is " just do it" with option of inserting shutup in front ,depending on the situation of course.Any way i'm not a details person and now i'm rather tired as i find it all slightly overwhelming ,unnessicary and stressful. Right..so g-night every one
-Hodge

i'll be your hands and feet

This song discribes how i want to be. I want to be able to just go where god sends me with out fear, with his help of course.Latly i've been so consumed with the thought of going back to new york that i havn't given god a chance to Tell me where HE wants me to go. Maybe it is new york untill now i had thought so but maybe there's something else out there for me.My prayer is for him to show me and for courage to be able to follow his will.

An image flashed across my TV screen

Another broken heart comes into view

I saw the pain, and I turned my back

Why can't I do the things I want to?

I am willing yet I'm so afraid

You give me strengthWhen I say

I wanna be Your hands

I wanna be Your feet

I'll go where You send me

I'll go where You send me

I'll be Your hands

I'll be Your feet

I'll go where You send me

I'll go where You send me

And I try, yeah I try

To touch the world like You touched my life

An I'll find my way

To be Your hands

I've abandoned every selfish thought

I've surrender everything I've got

You can have everything I am

And perfect everything I'm not

I am willing, I'm not afraid

You give me strengthWhen I say...

This is the last time

I turn my back on You

From now on I'll go out

Send me where You want me to

I finally have a mission

I promise I'll complete

I don't need excuses

When I am Your hands and feet

I am Your hands and feet

oh the wonderful sun

isn't it amazing how you can lay in the sun for hours and think you havn't even tanned only to walk inside and discover that you should't fall asleep in the sun for that long haha. three cheers for wonky tan lines!