I'm back!

I guess when life isn't exciting or easy, blogging is hard... And once you stop, it's hard to start again.

I'M STARTING AGAIN! Not sure where, but I'll just write...

My sister, Kayla and I moved to NDG, just west of the core downtown of Montreal, in early September. We've had our moments of transition but I'd say that overall it has been great.

This is part of Kayla's blog:

"I knew when I came here it would be tough, and there would be moments when I would fall flat on my face... but I didn't expect it all at once and so close to the beginning... In every way possible I feel like I am loosing the Kayla I know and love. I've lost my language, sleep, personality, culture, environment, friends, and most of all the God I know and love. This is a major loss in my life, which I believe I need to grieve and morn, yet, I need to recognize that in the process there is a strange beauty to this situation. It hurts so much to loose something you love but I also KNOW that God has a lot to say about "she who looses her life will find it". I find my flesh crying out for familiar and longing to walk towards what I know and understand, but at the same time I know God is removing things from my life only so He can put something more like him and more beautiful in its place. So for now I just have to wait in that and hope this happens soon."

I love how Kayla took the risk to move here. Her heart has been to just pray and cook for people- she's so hospitable, I love it! But it has also been really hard and stretching for her... I love that even through the hardest of days, she still feels sure that moving to Montreal was the right decision- I think that's God.

kayla works at the Second Cup below our apartment building. A couple days ago I went in with her to visit a friend and one of the regulars called her over. He's from England and I guess in a conversation she mentioned that she loved Marmite but has had a hard time finding it in Canada. He found and bought her a jar. Although she struggles with finding purpose most days, I think the way she interacts with people in our very tight knit community, serves them coffee, cooks, loves on people and goes on prayer walks and runs through our city is making a difference. A BIG difference!

I think we often like to romanticize community which ends up leaving us pretty discouraged. If you look and listen, I think there are little miracles happening every day. I see them in Kayla's life, even though most days she doesn't even see them herself... "Little is much when God's in it."