So we arrived in Ometepe on Wednesday and it already feels like it has been weeks that we have spent with the kids. The orphange has been an adjustment from last month. It has been a hard transition but one that I love at the same time. God is calling me to go deeper into our relationship right now…so I will. Sometimes in those moments I am fearful because I do not know what God is going to ask of me or say to me, but right now I am peaceful about it. I feel thankful that God is wanting more from me and I will go to Him like I never have before. Please pray that I will obedient in digging in this month.
I am trying to learn how to adjust to life at an orphange. The kids are desperate for love and want to be held every moment you are around them. I love that because my arms are open for just that. In the same way it breaks my heart because my arms will only be here for 1 month…that is it, then I am gone. But God´s love will never leave them. My prayer is that they run into His arms because they will always be there to love them. I cannot give them anything that will better their situation expect for the love of Christ. I pray that it fills them and they feel so loved that they do not have to question if they are loved. They are loved by their one true Father. Speak that truth into their hearts Lord.
This morning I started reading, “Under the Overpass” by Mike Yankoski and I love it already. Mike and his friend Sam decided see if their faith was real and if they could actually be the Christian they said they were apart from the comforts they´d always known. So they decided to live on the streets of America for 5 months as homeless men. The words below describe my emotions and thoughts better than I could express…so thanks Mike!
“…I suddenly felt entirely weak, unable, and inadequate to bridge the gap between myself and these men. Then I realized I didn´t have to bridge that chasm. That wasn´t my responsibility. My responsibility was simply to be there, and to trust that the Lord would use me, that He would bridge the distance.”
“This world was so completly different than the one I had known previously. Where I had known excess, I now saw only need. In my heart, I sensed attitudes of entitlement being replaced by thankfulness. My understanding of my world was being transformed, and so was I.”
“This world was so completly different than the one I had known previously. Where I had known excess, I now saw only need. In my heart, I sensed attitudes of entitlement being replaced by thankfulness. My understanding of my world was being transformed, and so was I.”
