Well this is the story all about how my life got twisted upside down, If you would like to take a minute and sit right back and let tell you about how I became the Queen of the pack!
I was going to try to create a rap to “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” but I wasn’t sure if anyone would care. So I’ve decided to just write, and let the words shine bright, but all on their own, without all the fluff, so you can know all the stuff. So here we go, down a path that will grow, on a journey thats long, and deserves a good song.
In Guatemala way up high, up high in the sky, lives a land called Quiche, but they didn’t have ceviche! What?? There we taught at a school, that turned out pretty cool. Though we didn’t speak the same language, and they had special needs, we did our best to carry out the deeds. We met a boy in a wheelchair, who needed someone to care. So we prayed and we prayed, cuz thats just the way. We started to yelp as we asked God for help, and what should result, but a new sense of hope! Magically, what did appear? But a chair of good cheer, and we all felt the love, sent down from above, as a little boy was given legs and a new sense of Joy!
To Nicaragua we journeyed, through four countries we hurried. And then we landed, in a town called Granada and there we were stranded. Okay not really, but I thought it would rhyme, but I better hurry cuz I’m running out of time. So there it was, that we learned about love. We served food at a dump, where they took a big lump. They smiled and said thank you, and were gracious about it too. They lived with humility, and with sensitivity, we served them the best we could, and loved them like Jesus would. We met a girl who was down on her luck, and she got stuck right there in our hearts, as she sang about Jesus right from the start. I learned how to love God’s children there, and never will take for granted the ones who really care.
We waved goodbye to the land so dry, and flew across the ocean blue, to a land so new. The Philippines is where we landed next, and I didn’t know what to expect. Little did I know, the love that would grow. I worked with Wipe Every Tear, and live ever so near, to a land full of sin, but disguised with a grin. I would live in a house of 17 girls who were saved, from a place that leads directly to the grave. They call them bars, but these girls know, that stars do not shine bright in a place without light. 16,000 girls there are sold, to men so bold, as to steal away their innocence, and their good common sense. With manipulation and pain, the girls have nothing to gain, from a life full of sadness, that they try to escape from the madness. But God loves his daughters so much, that he sent them a solution, that would change their situation. He turns their sorrow into Joy, their feet turn to dancing, so that when you meet them you can’t stop glancing. At their smiles you look, because they light up a room, because they no longer are sentenced to doom. They taught me about sisterly love, and pure joy that can come, from a life filled with God, and no where else will I trod. I left my heart behind, with friends who didn’t mind, because if I left it there, it meant something dear. I have to go back, no matter the track, to a land that is mine, until the end of time.
With many tears, and a broken heart, we had a new start. To rest and see the world afresh, in land called Thailand, with beauty I could not understand. There we celebrated Christmas, and sang songs about Jesus. We stood on a beach, and there we did preach, about the love of the Father, and to trust no other, than the one who made us, in God we will Trust!
After resting so much, we were ready for more, as we drove to Cambodia, and didn’t know what was in store. New teams we did have, so new family to know, as we split up into a land of great sorrow. It was there we did meet, four children with needs. We learned how to laugh, even when times get tough, and we learned to have faith, that everyone deserves grace.
We left the heat, and carried our feet, to a land called Nepal, with mountains so Tall. It was there that God taught me the toughest lesson of all, that sometimes all I need to do it call. Just call out his name and he’s there by my side, to comfort and allow me to confide all the deepest parts of my soul, and my love for Him grew more and more. I rested in his presence and found a new sense of hope, that God knows what I need the most. And he already has his plans for me, and he is trying to grow me into a tree. A tree that is sturdy and tall and relies on his most of all. A tree that will shout about his name, to nations who may not feel the same. He calls me up to greater things, and I am ready to sing! To sing of his love and his mercy and grace. To sing of his beautiful mysterious face. I am ready to face all my demons with joy, knowing who is the warrior so coy.
So I entered a land that is not always kind. A land full of persecution on its mind. A land that is not welcome to the word of the Lord, and who will take Christians to the sword. To India we ventured and prayed in our hearts, that Jesus would be our shield from the start. That he would protect us from darkness so dense, and bring his light that is much more intense! He gave me something I never knew I deserved, a child to call my own and who I could serve. A child with whom I would fall in love, and fill the hole in my heart where she always belonged. He would lay on my heart his plans for my future, and mend the wounds in my soul with one suture. So this is where I am saying goodbye, to a time in my life that just flew by.
The last seven months have changed who I am, and if I could I would go back and do it again. Not do it again in any different way, but go back say “wow” this is where I will stay. I will stay in his Presence until the end of time, and keep seeking after the One who changed my life on a dime. Who showed me his power, his might and his love. And allowed me to witness the acts from above.
Now I must go, to a land down below. To a different continent I venture, for a new adventure. Goodbye to Asia for now, I will try to come back somehow, but I still have four months to go, and now I go forward into the unknown. Thanks to my supporters for all of your help, I really thank you and appreciate all that you’ve done, its because of you that I’ve gone where I’ve gone. So now I shall say where I am going to next, hold your breath for just a sec….. its not like Aladdin’s Agraba…….
CUZ THIS IS AFRICA!!!!!
To Swaziland to be exact, and thats a Rap from the Queen of the Pack! Peace out!
