So how to begin, the past four years have been quite the
journey, quite the adventure and more glorious than anything I could ever have
imagined. The taste of freedom is now my beautiful anthem, the love of God is
now my driving force into each moment. I walk daily in victory and I am
consumed by the fire that refuses to go out. I walk in my moments of wisdom
applied and I walk in my moments of fleshly desires. Nothing has been able to
separate me from the love of my Father, no forces of evil, no angels, no
demons, not life, nor death, NOTHING.
I can’t do anything, not one single thing to make Him love me any less and I
pray that Gods goodness will allow me to have that exact same kind of love.
I can’t even
express this glorious joy He has blessed me with, I don’t have to see you Jesus
but with my heart I know confidently that you are there and I love you. We hear
so often in our society, don’t use the word “love” so loosely, well it is quite
clear that we have lost all true sense of what this word means. God commands us
to love one another as we love ourselves. So let me walk around and tell all of
his creations that they are loved and let me not just speak it but let the
actions behind my words be the truth. I was one of those people who believed
that word was not to be used so loosely and even saying it was kind of awkward
for me but why should it be awkward to tell my brother or sister that I love
them, I don’t have to know them, God didn’t say get to know people then you can
love them. NO, He said love them, this is one of my greatest commands. This
doesn’t mean you have to fall in love with every man or woman you see it just
means that you know truly that you care about your family.
Family in its
purest form has slipped away from our grasp, let us forget that we don’t share the
same DNA and remove our excuses of being different, different personalities,
different interests. We live in a broken world now where there are many who
have never experienced the sweet embrace of a mother or father, those who have
never been told that they are loved and cared about and as the body we need to
rise up and show those who are forgotten daily that there is a hope. Let our
love for one another be patient, kind, let it protect, trust, hope, and persevere.
Love will never fail us. These three
remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is LOVE. If faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains then
what can the smallest drop of love do in the lives of others?
Let our
hearts be transformed, let us remove the pains and hurts of our past, let our
hearts be opened to truly receive what the Lord wants to give. Let us not live
alone on knowledge or faith because without love we are and gain nothing. So
let us ask the question, dear heavenly Father, what does it look like for me to
love my neighbor as myself? What does it look like to have this kind of love
that your word describes?
Here are some pictures from our month in Kenya
The usual toilet in Kenya and Uganda
