Well we are driving off in another school bus
and I scored the front seat! We got up early packed, cleaned, and then waited 2 hours. We started playing a new Frisbee game, tips, prayed for the founders, then I had a feeling that I wanted to go to the hospital. Maybe because I knew others who had gone, or the fact that it was right there and I hadn’t gone yet, but I am so happy I did. I saw the babies and met a few kids and then met Miguel, a 7 year old (same age as Elle) with staples on the side of his head. Not sure how it happened, but he looked burned as well. He looked so bored that if I had just gone over more often and kept him and others company what kind of impact could that have made? I have to work on being more observant and taking every opportunity that comes my way to serve the Lord. I did leave a kid’s tract with him and I prayed for him. The hospital is right across the street from where I pitched my tent!
It was a full month! Everyday God showed up in huge ways in all kinds of crazy situations. I was distracted, homesick and getting use to everything plus sharing with the L squad and growing closer to God. I still want to work on being so much more Spirit led and less self-focused. I swear I have ADHD, I like and favor busyness way too much. But what is it to be still? What is it to sit quietly in the Lord’s presence and allow Him to speak to me?! I will be working on this all year but this is the truth, that I have not arrived. Ha ha! That I am a work that God has begun and will carry onto completion! (Phil 1:6) That pumps me up so much! That is love.
