i am here for drimnagh

this was confirmed to me today so well.. wednesdays are our visiting days.. i get to go out to the estates and hang out with kids and teens!! this is what i am made for.. today, i realised, and got such an overwhelming sense of peace, that this estate is why i am here.. my heart..

its the irish ghetto.. graffitti everywhere.. beer bottles everywhere.. barred gates.. and little irish gangstas everywhere.. and i felt so.. at home.. and new that this particular housing estate is exactly where i fit rite now, for such a time as this, i am rite where i was made for.. an estate is a community of brick flats, and barred parks with green grassways in the middle of them, with a couple chippers and a couple pubs, mixed with some schools.. the drimnagh estate would be around 30,ooo ppl or so.. im guessing.. and it was just soo cool.. i would walk from street to street and the teens and kids are everywhere.. i got stopped everywhere i went, cuz i am new.. and american.. and spent a good 3 hours hanging out with these ppl.. it was amazing.. its what i am built for! as i walked thru this park to get to another part of the estate, i was looking around and realised it was the most ghetto park ive seen in awhile.. and i just felt the presence of God going with me, and such a feeling of peace and joy.. and a feeling of home.. and a feeling of knowing that God created me for this.. for these ppl.. for this place.. rite now. it was the coolest feeling. realising that the love from my heart, the joy from my heart, for this dirty, drug and gang infested area, was from God.. and i was overwhelmed with joy.. its a feeling i have not had in such a long time.. God with me.. Emmanuel. God with us. God bringing Himself to this place and to these ppl by my very presence.. full of joy. full of God..

the irish ghetto.. to most, a lost place that looks daunting... to me, my heart. i praise God that i am here.. its such a blessing.. and to me.. so beautiful.. by the looks of it most would turn and walk the other way.. yet, to me, it is so beautiful, and fills my heart with so much joy.. pray for the ppl of drimnagh, and my time there.. what a beautiful God.