These days I don’t really feel that I belong here. Well I don’t think I could ever feel as if I belonged to Montréal or university, it’s too big for a little town girl like me. But I’m thinking about living with my grandparents. I just feel as if I’m breaking up all their little routines and bring with me things they aren’t familiar with, like Internet and getting home after 9pm. I am always very conscious of people around me, not wanting to interfere in their lives and these last couple of days I’ve been feeling out-of-place, that I don’t belong here. I would probably feel worse for moving out though! Life is okay and it’ll pass anyways. I’m enjoying going to university and being able to interact with new people – people who need Jesus. 

That was a little update on my little simple life. Now I just would like to encourage you with something you’ve heard many times probably. Every good Christian knows that reading the Bible and praying is good. I wanted to be a good Christian, so since a couple of years now I’ve been opening God’s Word pretty much every morning and I’ve been reading and praying. That’s really good. We should all do that.Since I moved to Montréal, I decided I would spend time with God in the same way I used to do it in the beginning of the year 06. Instead of quickly reading two chapters and then pray for two or three people and start my day, (a process that took about 20-25 minutes) instead, I started to “link” my readings with my prayers through “meditating”. I’d read a chapter, notice a thing here and there, open a notebook, start writing down thoughts about the verses I thought interesting, and see if I was finding myself somewhere in these thoughts, if I could apply it to some situations in my life or not. Then I read a second chapter and did the same thing. Sometime I couldn’t come up with anything in one of the two chapters, which was okay. Then I would pray, starting with the very things God had taught me, or showed me through my readings. And then I’d pray for two, three people. Good times. Real good times.

So I started doing that again, it’s been almost three weeks. It’s been really good. I am being taught by God, and I am encouraged everyday. I am always so thankful in prayer for the privilege I have to simply sit down in that little corner of my room, read, think, write, pray, in the Presence of God who cares for me. I am more than blessed.  I’d encourage you to start doing something like that. Taking the time, not only to read and pray. But taking the time to meditate on the Word. Yeah, it means it’ll take more time. Now I use about an hour, but I cannot simply go without it. I am so thankful that God is with me and loves me that it seems foolish not to spend meaningful time with Him. And what’s even better is that I am blessed as I spend time meditating His Word.

My friend, it’s worth it, spend time with Jesus. 

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