Month 11 has finally arrived!
The last month of The World Race brings me to Penang, Malaysia.
Our squad just got in this morning. And my team will be working with two other teams this month at an awesome organization called Kawan (Which means “friend” in Malay).
Kawan is a center that works with the homeless, and the less fortunate in the inner city. We will be doing feeding programs, and going into the streets to meet the practical and spiritual needs of the cast outs of the Malaysian society.
I’m so excited that this is the ministry I’ll be doing for my final month on the race.
I pray that God will help me to finish strong!
I will have a more detailed blog coming soon about the organization I’m going to work with in Thailand for two years, but I don’t want to neglect the awesome things I’m believing God will do this month. I want to share those moments with you all too.
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Here’s one moment I want to share with you guys, it happened in Thailand… and it’s been something that I’ve been slowly processing. Maybe typing it out in this blog will help me understand what God wants me learn from it.
One day our contacts brought us to a place called the Jade Factory. It was a really nice store that specialized in…you guessed right…Jade.
The presenter played a video for us explaining the different types of Jade, and how they are considered the “jewel from heaven. The Thai people see Jade as their most precious stone.”
After the video, she showed us a Jadeite stone, and explained how they buy the stone from sellers.
The sellers have to cut a thin slice of the stone, which is called a “window”, and then the buyer has to take a guess as to how much green stone is inside the Jadeite. It’s a gamble as to how much money the buyer wants to spend on the stone.
They can pay thousands for it, and find out the stone is worth it’s value or more…
or they can pay thousands for it, and find out the stone’s greenest part was in the “window”, and there is hardly any inside the stone.
I felt like there was something more God wanted to teach me through this presentation.
Maybe something along the lines of people and character?
Is my character consistent with the “window” that people see of me, in their short interactions with me?
Do I practice what I “preach”, or better yet…do I practice what I “blog”?
I don’t want to give the appearance of something rare and and unique, but then not be “worth my color in Jade.”
How about you?
Is the “window” that you show other people consistent with the person that you are, when no one is looking?
Don’t Get Fooled By The Window.
Don’t Display Something That Your Not.
It can go both ways..
I wonder how many buyers forfeited a valuable, precious stone because it’s “window” didn’t do it justice?
SO, I’m not sure why this thought came out on this blog… but It’s a peek into some of the things going on inside my head and heart.
May God help us to be worth our weight in character…consistent, and full of integrity.
Agenda: Love,
Bethsaida
