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This is it, the last month and I am in India.  This month has been filled with so much joy and almost all of it has come from children.  We really had the opportunity to pray deeply into our ministries this month and were given the choice of planting a church in a village or working at a children’s home with kids that have special needs.  So as I sat down to pray to God and ask Him where He was leading me, I was very surprised that He called me to work at the children’s home. God then let me know that this month would stretch me in ways that would only help me to grow deeper in my relationship with Him…and He has not disappointed me.

“This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love another. No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.” 1 John 4:10-12

I never thought that I could love the children at Sarah’s Covenant Home more than I do. At first going there was not easy for me, it was more of a battle. I would wake up and pray that God would give me the strength and patience I needed to give these children the love they truly deserve. Without fail, God answered my prayers each day and as I began to lose myself in love for these kids the battle dissipated and nothing but pure joy remained.  

 
 
Now as we are in our last full week of ministry I am beginning to realize something that God wanted me to learn…and that is to love everyone well no matter what, after all that is Christ’s greatest commandment. As soon as I got over my fleshly desires I was able to let God show me why He wanted me here.  I find my heart leaping in excitement every time I see one of these kids smile, laugh, or yell. It is through those things that the Lord speaks to my heart the most telling me that these are the very people He came to save-the lost, the crippled, the disabled, the fatherless…and He commands us to love them. As this journey begins to end I know with full assurance that there is no place I would rather end it than loving these children who are amazing gifts from God.