rebel against the box

dana left today(the chick i've been road tripping and living it up with for the last 2 weeks!)  i miss her already.  god really shook up her life while here and has a lot of changes and decisions to make now as she gets back to calgary(11 hours away!) was hoping she'd move here with me but not yet....we both didn't feel like now was the time.  so that's poo.

i'm on me own now...just me and god. and i have no idea what i'm doing here.  i know its right but literally thats it.  i'm in the slum hotel and have spent a couple of nights there.  its really growing on me.  first night was a lot of fun. me and dana invited jill from 306 to come and drink a bottle of wine with us and eat nachos(mmmm). was fun....we started praying(she's hardcore man!)  she started annointing my whole room and bathroom with oil and casting things out and breaking things and generally flailing her arms around a lot.  :) but accomplished lots of good stuff.  that room is so a haven now. gods space!  i feel safe in there even if outside is raging! when i opened my eyes a cockroach was trying to share my wine.  ha....i don't share!  he was promptly catapolted out the window.  the cool thing was the bed bugs went with the breaking of oppressive stuff.  so yeah...if ya ever have bed bugs pray em away....there apparently def not of god!  bonus!!  also incense works wonders for getting rid of urine smell!  nice!  you gotta laugh man!
i'm stuggling with what to do with myself here.  what i'm meant to be doing or whatever in terms of who i am and gifts etc.  what i have to give this place and more importantly this nation.  how i'm meant to sow blah blah blah. my part to play.
have a feeling that this month is going to be intense and a time for me to really dig in and find a place with god that i have never been to before.  scary but necessary if i'm to survive here.  feel very inadequate and useless at moment, but every day things move forward, eh?
bought a second hand bike yesterday from this cool guy....so i biked myself around stanley park this afternoon.  it's bigger than i thought...now my ass hurts.  so yeah.  found another fun beach tho.
went to the nude beach with dana yesterday.  that was fun man!  apart from i now have scratches on my ass from the barnicle things on the rock.  one of the risks of nakedness i suppose!   

i've arrived.
vancouver....so hot, beautiful, mountains, beaches, coffee shops, lots to do all year round, you want it you can find it here, feels very excepting no matter what kind of person you are.
i fit here.
god has been speaking a lot.  was welcomed into the city by driving over lions gate bridge...prophetic.  then arrived at the place i was staying for the next week and the door was open...so just walked in.  then was offered 2 places to live in 2 days. havent decided yet but god is taking me on a crazy journey here.  off to the prayer room tonight with dana(my partner in crime).  its right downtown in the eastside(dodge man) i randomly walked past it the other day in my travels so i'm excited. 
still don't know what i'm going to do out here but my road trip across canada was amazing...god spoke a lot and i had an amazing time with dana camping in the mountains, hunting for firewood, playing cards in the pitch dark wilderness, watching each others backs for bears and cougars, drinking wine, praying, chatting, lots of coffee. 
i'm excited to be here.
dana and i are heading off to the nudest beach tomoz...ha!  it's like 35-40 degrees man!  too hot for clothes! i'm bakin'!!

i miss the moss side posse.  understatement of the year!
welcome to the world charis!  i love you already!

i ran over a chipmunk...and killed it.
gross.

so, i've found myself in the arms of a stand-off. i've locked eyes with the nation...and what happens next is still to be uncovered. it's an adrenaline rush. all i know at this stage is i'm not taking my eyes off until i am given my space. (a mischevious smirk spreads across her face) then the fun starts. i can't wait to get my hands dirty.

rhubbarb crumble is definitly of the lord.
mosiquitoes the size of dogs, are not.