1st post-prayer and prejudice

Ok well I'm kinda new to this blogging thing so if I'm doing it all wrong please let me know haha! I got a blog mainly to present links that can share ways in which you can help our world today but I also think it's for sharing your thoughts on life day by day as kind of an open journal to the world, so that is how I'll present this one I guess haha:)!

"Journal Entry#1"-Well today has been a pretty great day. Most exciting news would have to be that my dear brother finally has a cell phone:D!! Most horrifying news would have to be of how this information was presented to me. My brother basically tricked me into thinking he was some creepy stalker since he had this new number. Mainly by telling me what time I woke up and little details like that.... yeahhhhh.... scary! Anyways I was pretty frustrated by this and so I decided that it was pay back time hehehe. I called up my friend and told him the story asking him to do the same thing Dan did to me to Daniel himself. He happily agreed and started this little prank… sadly ended in the police getting called and my friend almost getting arrested (we kind of got more into being stalkers than he did)...yeah never do anything like that with Daniel:/.

It's all good now though XD! TTT was awesome and I finally figured out a dance move I've been trying to learn for weeks...and the rest of the day was boring school

..Till I got onto this website and accidentally got onto this Iranian dudes blog. My first thought was woooowww awesome...I can really be a stalker now and then it was oh crap would if he's a terrorist and will trace me down and blow my face off:/. But being a very curious person and thinking that maybe I could help the FBI or something (even though his blog was open for the world to see….I’ve been cursed with quite a large imagination). I snooped around for a bit and found out by many translating tools and by many failures in understanding the jumbled English/ Arabic code (that in my mind was filled with many clues of a terrorist attack:)that he was or at least spoke in Persian. One of his posts that I translated was what looked to be some sort of poetry and the poem was, I think, about life on the sea which of course lead me to believe that instead of a terrorist he was...a pirate. His profile picture (which looked like someone on a wanted sign) in my mind, supported this. But then I found that he lived in the capital of Iran which uhh...isn't really close to any ocean....

I then decided that I should start thinking the best of this mysterious stranger and view him through God's eyes instead of my own Nancy drew superhero wanna-be eyes. I saw his posts quite differently at this point. They were mostly all about wanting to find the meaning of life and that it looked to him like there was nothing but misery to this world. He was searching for truth in this dark and mysterious world and lived in one of the hardest places to find truth… Iran. I found that he was an incredible musician by a video of him playing a reprise he made of one of the most complicated but beautiful songs I have ever heard. He was normal, no terrorism, no piracy, just a normal young adult trying to find something to live for and not having an easy time of it. I felt terrible. I live in a nation that is yes very wicked and evil and is slowly crumbling apart, but is also the most Christian Nation out there pretty much. In addition, one of the most sheltered areas of our country, which is in the safest most Christian state out there surrounded by a family and friends who are on fire for the King of love and compassion Himself. I was so ashamed of myself. Especially since I’m someone who has already found the meaning of life and truth and something to live for.

I immediately decided to start regularly praying for this dear man. At that moment something hit me, or He hit me (with clarity). Why would some random dude’s blog show up instead of the main blogspot page when I typed the site it in? Why would it happen to be a random Iranian’s page? And why would this happen to me, one of the most curious persons out there? This did not happen by random chance. I plan to in the future, possibly as a career, go to the Middle East (India most-likely) and do missions work for the girls who have been pulled into human trafficking. This being the case, the men of these areas would be my natural enemy and I had already unknowingly formed a huge prejudice against them even though they need Christ just as much as those slave girls do, whether they’re involved in the trafficking or terrorism or piracy or not. I think Father God was really wanting me to see this today to 1-open my eyes up to the prejudices I hold, 2- give me a better glimpse of how He loves and how He wants me to love, 3- to pray for this guy that He loves so much that could be going through an immense bout of difficulty possibly particularly at this very moment, and 4- so that maybe someone else will feel something through this message He’s taught me today and feel lead to pray for the people out there who they might have prejudices against. Well there it is. My first post, and quite a long one at that:/…haha:)!I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!
God bless,
-Licia