God is continuing to reveal himself to me through the people I am meeting and ministering to in India. Each evening my team travels to nearby villages. As we pile out of our transportation we are eagerly greeted by wide eyed, brightly grinning, and waving children. They grab our hands leading us through their village. We stop to pray at each house, their hands stay clung to ours. The streets are filled with laughter and joy as more children come running and join the human chain moving through the village.
We stopped at one house where a recently widowed elderly woman lives, and I was able to pray over her with my team. Before we left I gave her a hug and thought to myself “I wish we had more time at this house.”
The next house we stopped at I looked back and the woman was following us.
She walked up to me as we were taking pictures with the children, I stepped closer to her and captured a picture with her. As I was showing her I said, “Look that is you, so beautiful!” She began reaching towards me with a big smile filling her face as she hugged me.
Coming on the race I wasn’t sure how older women would look at us or if they would even approach us.
This is where God captures my heart the most; through the people around me expressing their true self. I have learned so much through the relationships I have had with older people, and it’s because of the life that they were so willing to pour into me.
Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance. Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.
-Titus 2:2-5
As I entered the church that evening I saw her sitting towards the back of the room. I saw that her frail stature only exuded strength and dignity, her eyes sparkled with encouragement, she spoke words of wisdom, and the only jewels she had were the white hairs she wore as a crown.
After the service she came to me for prayer but before I could put my hand on her head to pray she wrapped her arms around me.
I continue to be amazed at how much I am being blessed, when I came here to share love and bless them! God is revealing the more I give of myself, He creates room for me to recieve.
