You’re gonna know all my love
Even if it’s not enough
Enough to mend our broken hearts
But giving you all of me is where I’ll start
Our ministry this month in Guatemala is working in an orphanage with 10 kids that have special needs. The orphanage also runs a school for disabled children where some kids from the community attend –I help out in the school a few days a week.
Other days we’re working on projects for the orphanage, like chopping down a field across from it for security reasons. They’ve had a lot of break-ins lately and the field is a prime hiding spot for the thieves to scout out the premises. Or the other day we painted at a clinic for a local pastor and left extremely blessed by the prophetic words he individually spoke over us.
God has been showing me a lot this week about what it really means to love. To really love someone the way that Jesus loves us –without condition, and in all sincerity. When I first got here I didn’t understand why I was having such a hard time showing love to these kids. Why was it so easy for others to have patience and run up to them, while for me it seemed like I was constantly trying so hard to figure out what to do, how to care for them, and how to love them.
But God began to show me that in my own strength, my capacity to love is so small. But because of His unfailing love for me, His self-sacrificing ‘agape’ love for me, I am able to love others beyond what I imagined I could. And it’s a love that is sincere; it isn’t forced, but comes from a place of knowing God and loving Him, which then pours out onto others.
This sounds elementary, right? But maybe going back to the basics at the very beginning of my World Race is exactly what God wanted me to do. Because as Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13:
“If I speak in the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong, or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.”
The more I spend time with Jesus, just clumsily strumming my guitar and singing worship songs, reading my bible and talking to him, the more I see the fruit of the spirit manifested in my day to day here at the orphanage –and interestingly enough, the first fruit of the spirit listed …is love.
Financial update:
Currently I have $9,400 of the $15,500 that I need raised by July 1st to be fully funded. My next deadline is April 1st and I need a total of $11,000 in my account. If you would like to support me click on the link to the left bellow my profile picture that says "Support me!" Muchas Gracias!
