There are 16 women from the 8 different teams that have joined together and we are all doing ministry in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Interesting it is to me that none of us expected this, we actually did not find out that we would all be separated until nights before.
Our security can sometimes be misplaced and if there is one thing I have learned from this trip it is: Where does my security come from?
Does my security come from having a clean bathroom, does my security come from having soap to wash my hands at every public restroom? Does my security come from having communication with family and friends? Does my security come from having comforts all around me? (an actual sign in the restroom in Cambodia)
It’s humorous to talk about restrooms, soap, toilet paper, and water but these are the very things that I have realized I have counted on to be familiar. Now it is the 4th month and every toilet and bathroom has changed in each country. The toilets have been so close to the floor that I might fall in, I have seen water hoses in bathrooms, buckets of water (for flushing I learned) and realized to always count on there NEVER being toilet paper.
The language has changed in each country, Spanish in the Dominican Republic, Creole in Haiti, Khmer in Cambodia and now Thai in Thailand. Everything is constantly changing: currency, languages, ministries, our teams, our leaders, and of course the food. (Yet rice still seems to be the staple in every country).
If my security was in my surroundings I would be back in America because everything has changed nothing is familiar. If my security was in people I would be back in America because I miss my family and friends like crazy. If my security was in money I wouldn’t have even been able to get this far because fear would have overtaken me to think I couldn’t do it.
Hebrews 10:23 “Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep HIS PROMISE.”
And God remains the same. In every country, in every language, even when nothing is familiar,God is my security. God is the only one who can be trusted, who can be depended on and He will NEVER fail us.
