We have been travelling hence the silence on the blog. But changes are here! In Prague we were very focused on the shift of time, moving from the metronome which simply marks a rhythm, keeping everyone in line, to the clock, and not the mechanistic clock but the beat of the heart. We prayed for acceleration. Came home to Spain and in a few days the entrenched government was overturned, something that was certainly not predicted.
Then came the boat(s) into Valencia with over 600 refugees rescued from the Mediterranean. Spain a nation with a mercy, hospitality gift opening the doors and heart. A wonderful reversal too of history as through the port of Valencia many were brutally exiled in the Muslim expulsion (the focus of our prayers last year).
Now there is discussion concerning the removal of Franco’s body from the valley of the fallen, and o exhuming other bodies that were forcibly buried there in an act of conquest that proclaimed reconciliation (!!).
We might never know if any of the above was catalysed by the prayers of the team in Prague but there has certainly been an acceleration here. Our prayer is it will be a marker for Europe.
Martin, I think you, Gayle, & your Prague prayer team should have an extended stay here in the U.S.
Pleeease!! ???
Not sure if to laugh… but not laughing as the immigration issue is such an issue and how we respond to it. Of course not a simple one but so many (90++++++%) are fleeing horrendous circumstances, and Scripture tells us to welcome the alien, the stranger, the orphan, widow etc. We are just so grateful for the welcome to Spain for these. We pray a first of many. They were welcomed by over 2000 people in the port and about 100 people protesting their arrival.