#42 - Prayer Requests

Vol. 42

Thank you for your continued support and encouragement.

Many of you have asked for specific prayer requests. I was planning to write to ask you, but I just wanted my last update to be all about celebrating Him and the reason for Easter! 

Prayer Requests

·       Language studies: Please pray for my ears to be opened up to the sounds of this beautiful language. Hearing and distinguishing the different emphasis on certain words is important, and there are formal and informal ways of saying things, foreigner's ways and Khmer way, so pray that my ears may be attuned to the Khmer way! My language tutor is good but I think I may have to change tutors or place of learning, so I ask for wisdom for this next step. My formal tutoring occurs on a Saturday when I come into the city, so I am tired from the week at Rescue so please pray that I am alert for the 4 to 5 hours that I am studying Khmer!

·       Place in city: Still praying that He will provide that refuge in the city. With more and more holidays occurring here, I need to have a home base. I’ve been blessed to be at Lois and Nancy's place, but need to be more settled and not living out of a suitcase. Pray that I will have the time/help needed to find the right place with the following considerations:

• place free from flooding, so I need top floor and rooftop.
• the area has to be free of frequent power outages and with access to wireless!            

·       Next steps: Praying for after November when my time at Rescue ends. I know it is in Cambodia but praying for specific open door to His ministry! 

·       Community: Still trying to find my own community here with friends who are my peers to hang out with. I am at Rescue during the week so it is difficult to keep links from the church community. The only real time is Saturday and that is taken up with studies, and Sunday after church. 

Thank you. May He continue to be your guide and support!

Dancing with Him,

Love, Sister Vidya

#41 - Easter Reflections: Part 1

Vol. 41

Easter Reflections

‘Over estimation of faith’…Lord, it is not that I will or cannot follow you, but sometimes I overestimate my faith. 

When I think of You dying for me, no, choosing to die for me, and I have to think of that personally, (I am not being egotistical but rather that is who You are, relational, that is what sets You apart from others: the personal relationship of You and me!), I think, why?

You know of the many times I have doubted You. You know the secrets of my soul that no one knows, You know of the times in the future, (as well from the past and in the present), when I will fail you. Yet You decided that Vidya is worth it, and with each step up that hill carrying the Cross, carrying my sins, You never faltered. 

You knew your mission: to die for my sins so that I can have life in You.

You decided to die for the undeserving, me.

But the best news followed: RESURRECTION!

I am thinking of the Aretha Franklin song RESPECT, and trying to sing the letters to resurrection, but it is too long.

You are not dead. 

You are not a wooden statue, or made of clay.

You are alive. 

Your breath flows in and through me. 

Your spirit flows over me: little Trini-Canadian me!

Now you have to respect that (and yes, I can sing the song now), and be totally humbled and overwhelmed by that FACT: not fiction but truth.

I am undeniably Yours.

In a world where it is politically incorrect to say that we believe in Jesus Christ, I can say that I am so blessed to have the TRINITY around me: God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit surround me: yes, little Trini-Canadian me!

And that makes me dance…

So in Honour of Jesus Christ, yes, I say His Name out loud, I dance!

In the Name of the Father, In the Name of the Son and in the Name of the Holy Spirit,

Love, Sister Vidya

#40 - Grateful to be sent.

Vol. 40

I sit here with sweat pouring down my back, while a kid is pouring water over my head. The cool down is swift and then the heat returns! But the kids enjoy seeing the water drip down on Cher's neck and back! 

This morning I read Col: 4:12...always wrestling in prayer for you that you may stand firm…” My thoughts turned to you and I want to thank you for praying with and for me. I am truly blessed because other teachers who come here are not as blessed as I am! The difference is that I am sent by you as a missionary to be a teacher here. They come as teachers!

So with a grateful heart, as I feel the gentle breeze blowing once more, I thank you for dancing with me. Please let me know how I can dance with you and pray with/for you!

Dancing with Him with a new song,

Love, Sister Vidya