Awake
Stretch, exercise, decide to swim
Pool closed
Drive to jetty, listen to music
Exult, praise, worship, pray
Walk barefoot on the jetty
Take the message of Jesus – risk rejection
Pass it on to one man – acceptance
Rejoice, keep walking, pray
Feel close to Jesus
Take photo of Jesus graffiti
Walk more, feel strong breeze
Look at birds, sit down in shelter
Pray for Mum, text Mum
Express myself to friends on facebook
Get up, move on back to car
Drive back to town singing
Worship & praise, lift my heart up to God
Decide to turn onto road bordering the marsh
Looking out for people, praying
Thinking of handing out more Challenge papers
Not many people around – a few
See a lady sitting in her front yard
Wonder about stopping, keep driving
“Lord, show me what You want me to do.”
Keep driving, looking
Decide to turn around, go back to lady
Pull over when I see some people
Pray for courage as I hop out of the car
See a young woman walking towards me
Blood running down her leg
People looking on – unmoved.
I ask her what happened
Boyfriend stabbed her
She doesn’t want to go to the hospital
Just wants to go home and change her clothes
I take her “home”
Her & her father yell and swear at each other
“Don’t hang around that bloke!” he shouts
She sits, upset, bleeding
I comfort, pray, wait
She doesn’t want to go to the hospital
Wants to use bush medicine instead
The wound is very deep and open
She has scars from cutting herself all down her arm
I tell her she doesn’t need to cut herself because Jesus has already taken her punishment on the cross
She says she prays every night and confesses her sins
She says I must be an angel
Finally, she agrees to go to hospital . . .
Just another day in the life of Derby
People, crazy with alcohol, given over to self destruction
Wasted, broken, sad lives. Precious lives.
Jesus doesn’t want that for His creatures. He said, “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” John 10:10