Welcome Cleo, and Welcome Doughnuts :)

So as for the Lord shining through friends these days... HE HAS BEEN AMAZING! (always amazing but super dooper obvious lately)

This weekend I got to spend time with Lane. It was a great time to try to catch up, but it has really been a long time since we actually got to hang out face to face, so I can't wait to catch up even more over winter break... anyways... the ways the Lord shined and are shining though Lane... Lane built an amazing fixed gear bike for me, customized down to the colour! (PURPLE)! God has blessed Lane with the talent of bike-building and I am really excited to see where this talent goes from here! Thank you God for Lane's kindness, patience with teaching, and open-ness. I pray that this continues!! :)

Last night as I was drifting off to sleep due to lack of energy and sickness I got a phone call from Melissahh. I was happy she called but sad because I thought I wouldn't see her until after break... and the phone call was kind of sad b/c I was tired and not that energetic. (Ringtone was the rocket summer)... Then I went on the computer and got another phone call from Melwren. She was like "we are having a potluck in class tomorrow and I'm bringing doughnuts." Well this flew right over my head and didn't even phase me as strange... who brings doughnuts to a potluck? Hahha (side note... I slightly remember craving a doughnut the other day and telling melwren about it... but I'm not 100% sure...) I just thought it was for her art class so she asked "what kind would you bring?" and I was like "cruelers are pretty good, but I'm not sure what people would like." She said, "what kind do you like?" And I replied "well I really like those chocolate cruelers, they are tastey." And in my head I'm thinking it's totally normal for Mel to ask me about my fav kind of doughnut.

Then I got into Carra shut-down mode because I was tired and sick. I hear a knock on the door downstairs but I just figure it's a neighbor. Then I hear footsteps on the stairs and I'm thinking okay, Nicole is going to need me for something... a knock on my door! Ahhh, I'm already in my pj's and I'm always so awkward hahah, so I head to the door and Nicole says, "you have some friends here to see you." And I was puzzled... so I wrapped myself in a blanket and headed down the stairs awkwardly... as well as giggle gigglersonly... And I see two amazing sisters, MELISSA! AND MICHELLE! They came to visit me in my state of sickness!!! I was so confused, but like so so so thankful!!! No one really has ever done this for me, so I had no idea how to react! It was a visit Gift from God!!! My spirits were lifted and my heart smiled... it was such a quick change to my spirits, my body didn't have time to react in the way my heart was! They came up to my room with specially made doughnuts and a can of canada dry :)... man I'm blessed. Not only did they bring actual gifts but EVEN BETTER!!! they brough PRAYER and FELLOWSHIP!!! They prayed for healing of this sickness (which is def. the enemy attacking my energy), we prayed for our sisters, our Thanksgiving, and whatever was spoken to us through the Holy Spirit. It was such a beautiful night... I then felt so lifted up and had to give Him all the praise!!! HE IS SO GOOD!!! Our God is a HEALING GOD!

After the amazing lifting up I went and read some verses and just had some quiet listening time. That was followed by the long long long bloggage beneath this one haha, Carra why would you blog after a quiet time? B/c! There was so much spoken to me I had to blog it down! Or felt led to blog it... yes. so here are two lengthy bloggages. Sorry ready readersons!