Today I fell in love again. I don’t know his name, nor did I manage to snap his picture, but the moment our eyes met he captured my heart. I don’t know his family situation, if his family loves him well, if he goes to school, if his family has enough money to provide for him.
But I do know that in the very short interaction I had with him, in the 5 minutes he came to our class in the village, I fell in love with him. Watching him leave and ride away on his bike, I realized that I may never know anything about him, but for a brief moment I got to feel a small glimpse of the love the Father has for that little boy.
Small moments like this remind me that Christianity is more then looking for the big exceptional moments. Sometimes it’s recognizing the small fleeting moments, and sometimes it’s simply seeing Christ in the ordinary.
This little boy was a small fleeting moment. I couldn’t be more thankful for small moments like this to remind me to see the beauty in everything.
I’ve left pieces of my heart all over the world because of small fleeting moments. The moments when a child runs towards you with open arms, giggling; the moments you see tears build up in an elderly woman’s eyes as you pray for restoration in her family; the moments when you see tears well up in the eyes of a prostitute as you tell her how beautiful and how worthy of love she is; the moments you realize your contact is more like family then you ever could have imagined; the moments when you hear a small voice say “I love you” and arms wrap around your body as you say goodbye to yet another face but you couldn’t imagine your life differently then this – pouring out all this love every month on people you may never see again and knowing the heart break is so incredibly worth it.
Each day that I’m on the race I am compelled to see Christ in the ordinary, to ask Him to reveal small fleeting moments all the while expecting Him to show up in unimaginable and astonishing ways.
So I encourage you to do the same to ask Christ to reveal Himself to you in the mundane and ordinary, to pray for fleeting moments and to expect Him to show up in miraculous ways.
As this month in Cambodia comes to a close I am once again floored by the generosity of those support me both in prayer and financially. I am still $3100 away from being fully funded. In order to remain on the race I need people like you to help support me. I am asking that you would please prayerfully consider donating to help me remain here.
xo
A.
