What does
it mean to have your world turned upside down? Having lived your life one way
and then say no more, I want to take this path. How does someone go about changing
so drastically? Is it by changing your group of friends, changing where you
live, or is it by finally coming to realization there is something more to this
world? Is it by getting in the trunk of your life and letting someone else
drive you? If that’s the case who drives the car while I’m in the trunk, your
mom, maybe your dad, what if its none of the above?
This month
of October started for me October second to November second. I came in
expecting to see miracles and see lives change, but never expected to see that
in the first month. What is a miracle,
the bible talks about them, healings turning water into wine, feeding four thousand;
those are some of the more famous of miracles. But what about the miracles that happen around us that we get to see, the
ones that are not in the bible? Are they any less of a miracle do we even
notice them?
I was able
to finally have my eyes awakened to a miracle that happened around me. Through a young seventeen year old named
Henry. Nine months ago Henry robbed was robbing people on the streets at knife
point so he could survive. His mom tells him every time she sees him that she doesn’t
love him that she doesn’t want him around, which is why she doesn’t live with
him and his aunt. He didn’t know what it meant to be loved by anyone or know
what is to love someone. Yet this last
month God put Henry on my heart and I fell deeply in love with him each time I spent
time with him. I knew he had a great
heart and wanted something more, he just didn’t know how to go out and get it.
Day by day
the lord used me to chip away the ice and pain from Henrys cold broken heart.
God saw what he sees in all of us a lamb, one of his flock that his son laid is
life down for. He looked past the lice the smell but most of all he looked
past, the past. He saw what Henry could accomplish if he gave his life to God.
As the days turned into weeks Henry slowly began changing I went from his
friend to his brother. It went from adios amigo to ill see you later my
brother. To eventually the words that froze me in my path he hugged me good bye
and looked me in the eyes and said ” I Love You My Brother.” God changed Henry and
when I was telling Henry what it meant to be a true man of God and I wrote down
verses for him, Tony asked him if he had ever thought about asking God into his
life Henry said ” no tony haven’t thought about it but I’m going to tonight.”
The next
day was November second, we went to los Pinos one last time to say good bye to
the boys, as we were doing our last activity Henry came up to Tony and I and
said “I want to do it, I want God” So Henry, Tony and I went to the top of the
hill and Henry in Spanish began praying for God to come into his life and to
make him over flowed with joy hope and love. I know what he said cause Tony
translated it all for me after. Now It would be easy to say its cause of my
relationship with Henry that he went to God and steal the credit. But no God
broke Henrys heart through a love that he showed Henry through me. And because
of that I’m happy to end this blog by saying Henry ACCEPTED CHRIST!!! And if I don’t
see him again here on earth I can now rest easy cause I know I will see him
again in Heaven.
