My origional plan was to go visit a dying friend. But God told me otherwise. Through Elaine, he taught me a further lesson on 'faith' - the evidence of things not seen (Hebrew 11) and that if we ask God anything, we believe we have received it (Mark 11). What a powerful message, a powerful God and a loving friend who can pray for someone she doesn't even know, so earnestly.
Now I am ready to face Alice and to pass onto her ' hope'. Although my prayers with her were not nearly as inspiring as those of Elaine's but I think God knows where I am at and where Alice is. He will answer us all the same. Afterall, a few honest words is better than long babbling to him. We can thank him for Alice's good health from now on and act upon it. The rest is his job.

It was nice to see Mary and Beatrice too. To have longer visit with them and to know their individual needs. These two creatures are forever giving their love to those around them to the point of forgetting their own needs. Now I know better how to pray for them.

Through this incident, I sense that my calling for this term is perhaps to pray with the Alpha team. It seems to make sense as I want to find a place to serve and I enjoy prayerful people.