Nepal

     Nepal is SUCH a beautiful place! The beauty of this world that God created is truly magnified here. It’s in the greenness of the fields of rice and in the glorious mountains that surround our house in Kathmandu. It has truly been a blessing to live and serve here this month.

 

 

     There have been some changes since last month in India. First off I am no longer a team leader! This is not because I wanted to step back from leading or because I was not doing a good enough job. It is so that others may step up into leadership and be grown and stretched in those gifting. So my team stayed the same, but we added 2 members. Matt Blair, our new team leader, and Meagan Lafoy. I really believe this is the best thing that could have happened.

 

     Leading for the past 8 months has been great. It has been challenging and stretching, but recently I have become accustomed to leading and was no longer really being grown and stretched in it. I believe the Lord knew what I needed for these last 3 months on the race. I needed to just be. To not be constantly burdened by leadership and just focus on Him…focus on our relationship and not the concerns of my team…. and let me tell you, it has been great!

 

 

     This month has been one of rest and personal growth in the Lord. Our ministry changes pretty much every day and ranges from hiking throughout the village and handing out tracts to the local people, to going to prayer meetings at a local church members home, or hiking a beautiful mountain to pray over the city of Kathmandu while enjoying God’s beautiful creation there. Our days are very relaxed and we usually have a lot of down time. I think this is exactly what was needed after our month in India. I think God just wanted us to be able to rest and bask in His glory for a month.

 

    This month I have been able to just focus my time and energy into Him and our relationship. I have had time this month to spend time with my Father and to relish the time we have together. Something that I have been meaning to do on the race since the beginning is memorize scripture. I believe that it is something that is important to know…to have scripture written on your heart so that nothing and no-one can take it away from you and so that you can live out the scriptures more fully. This is something that I have put off, neglected, and just pushed to the side for most of the race while having this feeling inside me that I really need to do it. So this month I decided to just do it. Make a list of scriptures I want to learn and read them daily, and it has been oh so good and sweet. I set goal to memorize at least one scripture per day and have kept to it and it has been so incredibly rewarding. It is such a joy to KNOW God’s word and have it with me wherever I go, pushing me to live according to the scriptures an encourage others in them.

 

Here are some of my favorite:

Romans 14:8 – “If we live we live for the Lord. If we die we die for the Lord. So whether we live or we die, we belong to the Lord.”