I was on night shift this past week for the first time. It was fun! I was able to meet some people through a friend of my friend, Jana. I went to the lake with these new pals (hah I entertain myself) :) on Tuesday--they do this every Tuesday. What I didn't realize was that the girls from the other girl program (for girls who have been sexually exploited) have been going to the church where these people go to and have been going the lake every Tuesday as well. So they were there with one of the girls from the program I work with. It was really fun!! I hung (that sounds weird so I think it's wrong but I don't know what the right tense would be...) out with them Monday night and one of them did my nails--she'd been asking to do them for like 2 weeks haha. I think I might eventually like to work with them but for now I love working with my girls.
Ummmm... I was pretty discouraged after going to that church on Saturday night. Specifically, I was thinking that God's "best" for me will never be that great and it was just going to be hard and "sanctifying" but I won't ever actually have "fun"/ I won't ever enjoy where I am at. I find myself coming back to this lie over and over again throughout my life. So I, once again, just kept praying through it and asking God where He was in this time in my life and to help me believe that His "best" is going to be good and hard but not just hard. This was on Sunday and then Jana's friend and I got in touch and he is going to help me find friends here haha it was very sweet of him. There was one girl in particular that I talked to at the lake that was really cool but I liked them all!
Another way God reminded me to trust His love was that a random woman in Trader Joe's (aka my second home the past month and a half) came up and started talking to me for like 5-10 minutes. Eventually we stopped talking and she left. She then came back like 20 seconds later and gave me her card and asked me to call her if I wanted/needed a "mom" in Redding. I was just praying about wanting to find an older woman to have coffee with. :)
Yet another way is that Jana's friend (whose name is Steve--I've mentioned him enough that it would be easier to just say his name).. so Steve told me about a college group on Thursday nights from the church I hung out with on Tuesday. This college group is hosted by a couple. While the fact that I could be involved in a small group was enough of an affirmation that God was going before me and I could trust Him, He would not be satisfied in that. The couple who leads this group are the parents of a girl/woman (?) I met at church the weekend before I moved up here. She was sitting directly in front of me; she NEVER went to the church campus I was at and she never goes to the service time I was at--she and her friend just up and decided to go. Anyways, she told me to call her parents because they lead a small group up in Redding and I had been trying for a few weeks but never got an answer and the answering machine didn't ever come up. So, I feel like I should PROBABLY go to the small group... :)
OH! I also got a counseling appointment with a pastoral counselor. :) Yet another thing I had been upset about (i.e. not being able to find a counselor).
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