Rainbows @ the Grand Canyon

I little blurb from Jan, 9

I went to the Grand Canyon with my friends. Yes actually. There is a place here that is the Chang mai Grand Canyon. Not what you would expect, but it’s a huge rock quarry lake that you can play on huge inflatables, jump off high things, and get launched high by a man named John Wick. I have to say, it probably had been my best time so far on a day off. 

Pulling up to the huge quarry, you can see the hollywood-esq sign that reads “Grand Canyon” – I wasn’t going to argue with that. It was so beautiful from the top, looking down hundreds of feet above the water, but the true magic happened once you were down on eye level; down in the chaos and mess of the water. 

Upon getting down via big cliff jump, i climbed a high inflatable iceberg, to ya know survey the land. There were sprinklers keeping the plastic inflatables cool, large inflatable ducks to keep you company, and we endless things to fall of into the water around. But the thing that took my breath was the colors painted across the air in every direction you looked. 

RAINBOWS (because of the sprinklers) WERE EVERYWHERE. It was pretty magical. It was a small reminder that as beautiful as the view was from above, even more so was it in the middle. You couldn’t see the rainbows from above, and you wouldn’t even know that they were there unless you went in. In a super cheesy way, (I don’t make the metaphors, ask the Lord why they’re cheesy) I saw the parallel in life. 

I’m a very big picture kinda girl. I can get a rough (very rough) outline of what I think I want to happen, and just make it up as I go. I normally know that I have an end goal, or have heard from the Lord what it’s gonna be. But I often can stayed zoomed out – too far above to know what’s down there. The Lord has been zooming me in. Into the hard things that take work. Into the scrapes and bruises. Into the “woah that’s not what I expected, but it’s good”. And into the middle of it before seeing the above. AND I GOT A DAY SURROUNDED BY RAINBOWS. Promises of joy, promises of his voice, promises of abundance found in the security of the father. The promise that I won’t ever be left alone, even when a bruise or too falling off a giant blog come and go. AND TO THINK, I could have missed it, and I think sometimes I do. Jesus thanks for the reminder to just go into where you say, blind obedience, and do the dang thing. To say what u want me to say, even if that means looking a fool. To do what you say, even if that’s not what I want. To choose to say yes when my emotions don’t line up with using a squatty potty or pursuing hard things. BECAUSE I WANT THE DANG RAINBOWS. I want the beauty. I want the life with you. 

That same day we saw a girl who fell and couldn’t move her neck or back, healed through prayer. We laughed as our recent sickness left us with even less arm strength than before, and more than that we met with the Lord in his humor and joy. IT WAS SO SO FUN. Everyone we talked to was from a different country and all were so enjoyable – all God’s kids. 

JESUS JESUS JESUS thank you!!! 

We move to Chang Dao, thailand today for our new ministry for this next 2 months. We would love prayers for continued health in our new village, and continued strength. 

Missing yall, 

Carissa