God is so Good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you remember singing the song as a child "God is so good, God is so good, God is so good-He's so good to me"......????? I feel like singing it every day here. I am so thankul that I serve a Holy God that loves me and can use me despite my many many imperfections!! I have been praying daily for some specific things and today I saw 2 of them answered in a very special way and wanted to share them with you.

FIRST ONE---I have been praying about the people that live and work on my street that I walk by every day. My street takes about 5-8 minutes to walk to the end (main road). On my walk I pass by construction workers, vendors, neighbors, street cleaners, taxi drivers, and hotel security people. Sometimes I walk down my street several times a day but always at least once a day. I can't really communicate with them but I always smile at them and say "hello" in Thai (swaat dii kha). My prayer has been that I would be a witness by example and that they would see something different in me even if I can't talk to them yet. So this morning at 7:00 a.m. I was walking down the street to the sky train to go to language school. I walked by a guard in front of the shopping center and said "swaat dii kha" and usually they just say it back. Today the man said it back and then said in English "You have a beautiful smile". Wow that made my day! It might be the only thing he knows in English and he says it to every white woman who walks by but i have never been told that here until today. To me--it just reaffirmed to keep smiling and greeting people with the little Thai that I know and it really can be a strong witness.

SECOND ONE--I have been praying for the Lord to open doors for me here in whatever ways He wants to do it. When I finished language school today a little after noon I was riding the elevator down from the 7th floor to the 1st floor. On the ride down a "Thai" young man spoke up and asked if any of us on the elevator were Americans. 3 of us said we were and he asked if we were living in Bangkok. I said I was and would be here for 2 years. He then asked me if I would be interested in teaching English to help some "university students" prepare for this summer when they will go to America on an exchange program and work at Six Flags and places like that. He told me that the school was on the 12th floor and that I could come one day and visit. I will go up there next week and will be lifting it up in Prayer. It involves teaching English and University students but I never would have even thought about it because it is not a University Campus. Sometimes our ministry ideas are limited to a campus setting but God's ministry field is much bigger and spreads into the community in many ways.

I am just amazed at everything that is taking place around me. I can't even describe it at times and I just have tears that flow from being in awe of HIS greatness and Power!