new york, new york and answered prayer

i am blogging from new york - this is a first. we drove here from toronto on monday. the trip was good. heather and i sang a lot of the way - i am sure the igniters loved every second of it. we stopped at niagara falls on the way, which, by the way, everyone pronounces ni-ag-ra, not how it's spelt, i have taken it upon myself to correct the world and am now pronouncing it ni-a-gar-a, as it should be. please join me in my efforts. anyway, we stopped there and if you have read my blog before, you'd know my feelings towards these falls, yet i came to appreciate them in a new way, as this time i actually went to where the water actually gushes over the edge. now i found that pretty amazing. kind of crazy actually. so, i have a new appreciation for the falls. don't be confused though, i will not be making any attempt to visit them anytime soon, if it's up to me.

so we've been in new york now for a few days now. we are visiting our friends at project 1:17, a youth training program run at the school for officer training here in NY. i have learnt some things and had some thinking provoked. that's good. not the time to blog about these. that may or may not happen. wait and see...

one thing i have been reminded of is how God answers prayer. i used to think people who said 'be careful what you pray for' were a little loopy. but i now know they were wise. however, sometimes it's better to pray in ignorance. three big prayers i have prayed over the last few years include:
- that i would go anywhere and do anything that God wanted me to do. obviously over the last year, God has only just begun to answer that prayer...and i believe He's going to keep answering that one for the rest of my life.
- that i would find a strong Christian husband. well, that one has well and truly been answered. matt is at least as strong (and stubborn...oh oh) as i am. ok, so i give that we aren't yet married, but seeing as it's less than 5 months away, i'm going with that.
- that if God wanted me to become a Salvation Army officer, then i only would if i was married and my husband and i were called to it. tick. God got me on that one too!
God does answer prayers. like i said, i have been praying the three above, literally, for years. sometimes it takes time and it always takes faith. so i add myself to those wise people who will tell you, be careful what you pray for. on the odd occassion, i think to myself, why did i pray those prayers, as all of them have some drawbacks at times. but seriously, i wouldn't take back a single one of those prayers, i wouldn't have it any other way.