of excretory waste (yep.. poop)… eating a Snickers bar and enjoying every
single bite.
A little lost?? Well, let me start from the beginning. It
is the second month and my team and I joined up with another team working at an
orphanage in Nepal.. so in total there were 11 of us. We all got cozy pretty
fast and our two teams meshed extremely well. The cute little women at the
orphanage cooked for us, and no offense to them but it was the same exact meal
every day, rice and dahl, and by the first week we were already sick of it. We
found ourselves taking frequent trips to the small store to get snacks and
cookies to satisfy our sweet tooth.
I feel like I should preface this to make myself sound
like a better person.. but in normal life (aka life back at home in the US of
A) I love to share! It’s my favorite thing to buy a chocolate bar and everyone
gets a bite…. But on the World Race… when the only comfort besides Jesus is a
Snickers bar, I want to savor every stinkin’ bite. And I don’t want to share.
Well after our trip to the store, I would bring back a
whole bag full of goodies that should last for the entire month, but I found
that in Nepal with 10 other World Racers, a bag of cookies would be gone in
seconds. As soon as they saw me open the bag, I would see their eyes light up
and their mouths start to water.. and then I heard the words that I dreaded the
most. “Can I have a cookie?”… of course I would always say yes. And once one person
gets a cookie.. EVERYBODY gets a cookie. And in a flash… my bag of cookies is
gone. This happened the entire month.. and by the third week I was sick of it.
All a girl wants to do is open a bag of chips and be able to eat the whole
thing without having to pass it out to everybody in the room.
So I had an idea. If I had to share all of my snacks with
every person in the room.. then I am going to make sure that I am in a room
with only one person in it, so I would only have to share with me! (selfish I know)
The only room that I could get any privacy and semi feel secluded in an
orphanage full of 15 kids, 11 World Racers, 8 young girls that volunteered
there, and the Pastor and his family was … yeah you guessed it. The squatty
potty! So….
I found myself, sitting alone in the bathroom that reeked
of excretory waste (yep.. poop)… eating a Snickers bar and enjoying every
single bite.
Proverbs
9:17 “Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is delicious.”
I had reached an all time low. I’m honestly not proud of
that moment, but I have learned an important lesson while living life on the
race. Anything edible that I buy is to be shared in community with everybody.
No matter what. On a deeper level.. Yes I used my own legs to walk to the store
to get the snacks, and yes I did pay for it with my own money. But where did
the money come from? The Lord has blessed me with everything that I have, and I
should in turn bless others with what he has given me. Everything that I have
belongs to the Lord.. my body, my soul, my spirit, my clothes, my possessions..
So when I feel the Lord telling me to share, I must obey. It is the Lord’s
belongings that I am giving up, not my own. Yes, I probably will only get one
bite of my Snickers bar if I opened it in front of everyone.. but in reality
they are doing me a favor. I probably didn’t need to eat the whole thing by
myself anyways for health reasons… and I am trusting that somewhere along the
way, they will share a bite of their Snickers bar with me. Also, my treasures
are stored up in Heaven, not here on earth. When I have the opportunity to go
to Heaven.. I’m sure that the Lord will provide me with a whole room full of
Snickers bars. I bet in Heaven you don’t even get fat, so I could eat them all!
So there is my lesson on sharing. Sharing is caring!
“Give to the one who begs from you and do not
refuse the one who would borrow from you”
Mathew 5:42
