Ash...open wide our hearts...

So Winnipeg eh. My heart ached going to church today. I went to the Vineyard today and it was really good and I'm pretty sure that that's where God wants me to be but I'm still grieving my Calgary church. I miss my community there and just everything about that church. While I was worshipping today God gave me this picture of pulling a tree out of a pot and placing it in a new pot. He told me that this is what He has done with me and that it will take time for the roots to take hold of this new soil but that in time they will. My name actually comes from Ash-trees and I found it cool that this is what they say about ash trees: The wood is hard, tough and very strong but elastic, extensively used for objects demanding high strength and resilience. I like that--strong, resilient, flexible. I read somewhere also that ash trees are incredibly difficult to take out--they hold their ground amazingly well. After God gave me the pot picture this morning a lady came and prayed for me and told me that she got a picture while praying and it was the same potted tree picture--very cool. I know Winnipeg is where I'm supposed to be and Im excited to be here. I'm still waiting for my roots to take hold here but I'm confident that Jesus who called me here will keep me safely wrapped in Him. I love my job at Siloam. I absolutely love building relationship with my co-workers and the homeless people. God spoke to me today about Siloam being my church in a way. That I have the freedom and the responsibility from Him to prophesy and pray and speak His truth to each person I meet at Siloam. I spend so much time at work that I really want every moment to be Holy. Not some superficial religious mindset but just that in each moment I talk to someone or clean tables or sort clothes that I can have the attitude of Christ to love and be loved by Him. If you pray for me please pray that I would make friends at my church and find community and pray that as I build friendships with some amazing people at work that I would not grow weary in heart as I pour out but that I would constantly be filled with what I need from Jesus. Please pray for my friend Cheryl--she is going for surgery and she basically lives on the streets. She's had a really hard go at life but I have the privilege of getting to know her. Please pray that our relationship would grow and that she would be safe and healthy and that she would come to know Christ. And pray for the kids in the Northend of Winnipeg. WE get alot of them through our doors and my heart breaks for them--they live in chaos and desperately need Jesus so pray that I can be Jesus to them. Thank you for supporting me and remembering me even though I am far away. I love you all and carry you in my heart.