So here we are in Malaysia. My body decided to get sick for a day or two which was not good but you never appreciate your health until you don’t have it. This month we’ll kinda be all over, this week were at the beach and working with an Indian church. Putting on a weekend youth conference, so I am constantly reminded of all the planning and preparation that needs/should go into planning a retreat, (thank you Loveatwork and Crosswild) however we got here Monday and its Friday and it’s starting.
I am exited about it though, I’m talking about what it means to live life on faith and not just living as a believer but stepping out faithfully and challenging them to see what in their life requires faith, so I guess I challenge you the same, What in your life requires faith right now?
I am so many more things here on this thing we call the race than I am back home. Although I do not always say it has been good, it really has been good to stop limiting myself on what I can and cannot do, because when you’re in a random country at a random ministry, you can’t exactly say no. So you have to rely, you have to trust that it’s not you who’s doing the work anyway.
Malaysia’s beautiful. They export a lot of palm oil so there are huge palm trees everywhere. We have been driving a lot going to villages and homes so I have seen a lot of the countryside, which palms. It looks like Jurasic Park meets Pandora. The church we’re working with has planned us to go to lunch and dinner at someone from the church’s house every meal and everyone has been sooo accommodating, it is a good reminder of hospitality.
After every country, I feel as if I should leave it behind so I can be present in the next one, but the countries are coming harder and harder to leave behind, I now feel more and more that I keep and carry them with me. The people, the smiles, the relationships, the memories, the joys, the smells, the bugs, the ‘bathrooms.’
This world is so much bigger than the life I have back home, there is so much more to it than my egocentric life. I am blessed to see it.
