I did a writing/journaling prayer in my half-hour block of time, and like Sherrie I am constantly amazed at what can be accomplished and worked through. I prayed for my two friends that I’m bringing. In my prayer I spent a lot of time asking God to just bless them and help them in the ways that I wanted them to be helped–the ways I thought would be beneficial to them. But when I started thinking about what we were doing with this event, I realized how blessed we all are to have these friends we are bringing. Every good thing comes from God, it is said, and this is no exception. Let’s think about this on its many levels: we have friends, we have non-Christian friends that we can develop trust with, we have non-Christian friends that we are given the heart to bring to Jesus, we have non-Christian friends that we love enough to bring to Jesus, and most of all, we have friends who love us enough that they are willing to go along with whatever scheme I’ve concocted. I, like many others, have my doubts about my ability to evangelize, but I think the heart of the issue is that God only needs us to get his foot in the door to do his awesome and mighty work. The foundation is already laid: we’ve already been blessed with so much love and caring,  both in giving and receiving. All we have to do now is hold the door wide open.

Thank you, Jesus, for our friends.

-Lucy