"i'll walk with grace my feet and faith my eyes" - caedmon's call

I can't believe I haven't mentioned Paula on this blog yet.  Okay, so the first Sunday we were here, we met Paula at church.  She is from Brazil and is here in Dublin studying English... Portuguese is her first language (so frustratingly close to Spanish, but definitely different!) and we just love her!  We hang out with her a lot, and have met five other Brazilians through her.  So be praying for that.  It's awesome that we met her on our second day here, because we've been able to spend time with her and her friends already and the summer is still just beginning.

Tonight we have a prayer vigil at church that I helped plan, so hoping that goes smoothly.  Tomorrow some of the normal activities going on, plus hanging with Paula and co. as well as hoping to go to the World Championships of Street Performing (isn't that grand?), which is apparently going on here in Dublin this weekend.  Then Sunday after church, a big group of us will be going to some huge Christian concert in Wicklow.  Hoping some of the youth will come too!  

I'm sure everyone on the intern team would agree that it has already been an enormous growing experience coming to a new place, getting to know completely new people, etc.  I think we have all been surprised with how our wounds and pasts have followed us here to Dublin, and how we have had to make sense of who we are all over again as a result.  It's beautiful how everyone has been loving each other and I really hope we can continue to do that this summer.  God is as real here as he is anywhere else in the world, and I'm sure this is part of what he has in mind for us in the next two months... that we would be stripped away of all we hide behind in the States and that we would stop ignoring our wounds, but that instead we would give them to him in complete trust and confidence.