No.Way.

Following up on my Un.Be.Lievable post a week or so back, something else happened today that I just had to come back to work to blog about (even though I've just left here to have a holiday!). Here goes:

My car, as I mentioned, went in to be fixed. This morning I phoned to say I need it by 1, and organized a lift. Got dropped off with my child (so we could go straight from there to the mall for lunch and a shop), only to find my car up on blocks, wheels off, waiting for parts - they'd fixed the wrong Ford by 1!

Well, we were hungry and we had 2 hours to kill, so we decided to walk down the road to a nearby pizza place (our favourite) and have some munchies (near the restaurant I saw recently up for rent). We'd just walked a few metres when I passed a parked truck. Who should greet me but someone I haven't seen for 17 years - the guy who beat up my boyfriend over me! He was waiting to retrieve one of his garden service's lawnmowers, locked in a friend's garage, and said he'd walk with me because he had something huge to tell me.

He handed me a copy of a newspaper article, which I ran my eye over without taking much in, and then launched promptly into how God has worked some huge miracles in the last 3 months. This guy has changed! When I knew him he was on drugs, alcohol and tobacco - at the age of 15 - and was a real a***ole (no other word for it!). Now he can't stop talking about God, and praising Him - in every single sentance. He glows!

And the miracles? Well, he's been in the family garden service business for a few years now, and recently felt led to start a training service, training the unemployed locals to work and produce organic food, create gardenscapes, and then make it a career. He's joined a charismatic church near here where he's been prayed and prophecied over, and found accountability for life-changing decisions. While he was planning this, another group was creating a non-profit company, not knowing what they were supposed to be doing as a company, but getting it going according to God's leading. Then they connected with him, and what he was planning was exactly what they needed to do. Wow. That's what the article was about!

But it doesn't end there. He says just that morning he had coffee with a Christian chef who has been out of work for 5 months, who wants to start working with organic foods in Somerset West. And I was blow away, because I want to start my little food place with organic and natural foods, but am no chef and didn't know where to source the produce locally!

Now it seems we have a chef, a business plan, a source of organic fresh produce, and a way to better the lives of the many, many unemployed around us in the community!!!

Good Lord - is that YOU????

I'm usually pretty sceptic about the prophecies and blessings stuff that charasmatic folk seem to take for granted (grew up in a church suspicious of many aspects of the charismatic movement, and still find a good deal of it pretty scary), and what happened today not only blew my socks off, gave me cold chills and goosebumps, but also scared the hairies out of me! :)

I can only see it as such an amazingly clear sign that God's leading me into this business. I can't wait to share it with the brother that offered financial help!

I had very little time to chat to my old friend, but you can bet we'll be getting together, all 3 of us and God, to do some excited chattering about the possibilities.

I'm still kinda in a state of shock. Please, please will you remember me in prayer? Prayers that I will be sure of the road ahead, that I will get over my terror, and be willing to place my life in God's hands. And prayers of thanks for some mind-blowing stuff that's suddenly started happening.

Thanks!