5/18/12
Each month on this race I have had a personal theme based on lessons God has been teaching me during that specific month. I’ve walked through an increase in faith, questioning God, and the Spirit.
I’m only four days into ministry here and I know the theme for this month is going to be BLESSED (reference my previous blog for the beginning of this process).
Today half of our team was supposed to help with school for the afternoon. We were early so we just hung out with some of the children. I found myself wandering around and stumbling upon a few children playing in the mud.
Well at least it looked like they were playing in the mud at first.
So on over I walked.
And quickly realized they weren’tplaying in the mud at all.
They were stirring dirt up and making mud.
Followed by packing it into a mold.
And then dumping it out on the ground to let it dry.
Oh, they are making sandcastles except using mud instead of sand!
Well that’s easy enough.
Hand over the mold.
Let me help you out.
But you see as easy as it sounds, it isn’t.
These young boys gave me the opportunity to help them.
To give it a try myself.
And I failed.
I failed so bad we dumped the mud back into the pit and had to redo the whole process.
We all laughed.
I knew they were laughing at me.
But it was ok because I was laughing at myself too.
As we laughed I couldn’t help but think of how this would never happen in America.
Standing here with me was a young boy about ten years old who was practically building his own house.
He is working in the African sun to make bricks to build his house.
He isn’t in school getting an education.
He isn’t running around playing while his parents are the ones doing manual labor.
He isn’t paying someone to build a house for him.
This little boy is doing it all on his own.
This isn’t normal for these eyes to see.
And I don’t believe it would be normal for your eyes to see.
Because we are all blessed.
God has poured out blessings in my life that I overlook daily.
I’ve never had to even think about making my own house.
I’ve sure never had to worry if I’ll have a house to sleep in at night.
I am blessed.
And I don’t ever want to take those blessings for granted.
So welcome to my theme for the month.
Interested in walking through it with me?
