Hello Friends!!!
It's been such a long time since I last wrote on my blog. I am so sorry, for all of you that are asking for more up dates. I've been super busy, and on top of that my internet is not yet very reliable. But, I am glad I can communicate with you and share a little bit of what is happening on the South side of the globe.
We are all doing good. Making new friends little by little. It is hard to leave a life of long time friendships and start from zero, but things are moving.
I would like to share about a family that I met this past Monday (12/06). I don't really know their last name, let's call them "Silva".
It was about 10pm on this past Monday, when I was leaving the Sao Paulo (GRU) Airport. It was raining. Traffic was terrible. I had my two kids with me. Every one was REALLY tired and cranky. Never the less, I still would have to drive an hour and a half to get back home to Campinas.
As we were leaving the airport, I saw this family seating out side on the curb. It was a husband, wife and two little girls, about my kids age(five and three). They looked homeless to me. Not an uncomun seen in Brazil. You can see families like that pretty much every where here.
So, as I passed by them heading to the parking in lot. The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said : "Go back and talk to them. You have an answer to them." My first reaction was: Seriously?? It's 10pm. It's been a LONG day. We are all tired. There are thousands of people in this airport right now, can you ask someone else to do this? (not very spiritual. I know).
Well, I went back and said hi to them. They asked me for money(very typical).They told me that they needed $28.00reais (U$18.00) to pay for their bus tickets to get to a town near by to go see a cousin and try to find a job.
I hear the Holy Spirit saying: Give them the money. So, I did it. And then, I asked to pray for them. At the moment, the wife looks at her husband and starts to cry saying : "I told you, God was going to send us an anwser". At that moment I knew God had a plan.
After praying for them. The husband told me that they were from the Northeast area of Brazil and what they really would like is to go back, but tickets are very expensive. His arm was broken, so he can't get a job, and if they could go back to where they were from, at least they would be close to family and would have a place to live.
I was listen to him talking and I told him. I am sorry , I don't know what to say. Than, the Holy Spirit tells me : Give them your phone number. I said in my mind : This is crazy!!!!!This is Sao Paulo. I can't do that in Sao Paulo. It is super dangerous. But, I felt I was supost to. So, I gave them my phone number, and said that I was not promissing any thing, but he should call me the next day at noon.
I left, and the whole time driving back home all I could do was pray for them and think. I am crazy!!! I gave my phone number to a homeless family, and I don't even know why.
When I was almost getting to Campinas, I heard the Holy Spirit telling me: I want you to call Giselle tomorrow morning and she will tell you how to help this family.
The only thing was that, I had only met Giselle once at my friend Claudia's house and had no idea how to get hold of her.
The next day I facedbook Claudia and asked her for Giselle's phone number. Claudia is in the States for the Holidays, and we are four hours ahead in Brazil. Time wasn't on my side.
Meanwhile, Alex called me. I told him to call me back in the evening, because I was trying to get hold of a friend to help.
In the afternoon I got hold of Giselle. I told her what had happened the night before and asked if she could help. At first she was shoked with the whole story. I Don't really know why? Don't people give their phone numbers to homeless people and call others that they hardly know to help completely strangers all the time? Ha!
So, she told me how to get help to Mr. Alex's family. When he called me back, I was able to tell him that he was going to be able to go back HOME!! He and his family, were going to have their bus tickets paid for. He was so excited. All he could say, was that his wife kept telling him that God was going to send somebody to give them an anwser about their situation. He was in owe of God's love for him and his family.
And I was so glad to know that those little girls would have a home to live and family to love on them.
For sure they will have a Merry Christmas!
Some times we pray and ask for God to send us Divine appointments, but some times we need to be somebody else's Divine appointment.
Love you all!
Jordania
