Sorry I haven’t written in a while. I am having been trying to come up with an inspirational blog, but The Lord has not brought me one. This will be a blog update in its finest.
Team Lion Seekers and Team An-Geadh-Glas (Spirit Chasers) are in Haripur, Nepal this month. Lion Seekers are working at the school. So far we have cleaned classrooms, deweeded, and began painting a classroom.
In the classroom, two walls are for numbers, one wall for the alphabet, and one wall for the Golden Rule. On the two number walls we are painting the Parable of the Lost Sheep from Matthew 18, with 99 sheep on one wall, and the other Jesus looking for and finding the lost (100th) sheep. It looks so great and all the drawing credit goes to my awesome teammate, Amanda Lawrence!!
The alphabet wall uses each letter to tell attributes of the Good Sheperd.
I am so excited to be contributing to the school in this way!
There are some other things that we are to be doing in and around the school, but I don’t want to tell of them until we are actually sure we are doing them.
God has been growing my team together so much more in these past few weeks. It’s a true community of sisters that I have never experienced before, and will never forget. I have grown close to each of my sisters and I truly don’t want to part from them at the end of this month. They know me inside and out, better than I know myself sometimes!
Together we have learned to always find the positives, play the thankful game, take bucket showers and use Squatty potties. We have learned how to build each other up into the best us that God calls us to be. We have learned to live life together and love together.
We don’t always agree on things, we don’t always get along, but we ALWAYS love each other! One of the most important things I have learned on the Race with them is that you FIGHT for relationships! You give it your all and when you have nothing left to give, you give some more.
Take marriage for example. So many people today ask how someone can stay married to the same person for 50+ years. The answer is more simple than you would think: when things look like they might fall apart, you don’t run away from the rumble…you begin building it back into a creation better than you had before, together. Marriage isn’t always lovey dovey. The honeymoon faze DOES come to an end. When you truly love someone, you love them for their ticks and faults. You love them for who they are deep inside, not just surface level. You live together, love together, and suffer together.
Suffer might not be the right word, but you continue to live out life’s challenges together. Out of this you become stronger as an individual and as a whole.
We hardly ever see what God is doing in the moment, but when we look back we see the fruition of His plans. I can see what God did in all my moments of frustration, in the times I wished I was on another team. However, the Lord knew I needed each and every single young woman on my team to help break me and remold me into His desired daughter of the Most High King! Each member brought something different to the table to challenge each of us.
I will miss those girls, but I am excited to see what God has for each of us in our new teams, and how He will grow us immeasurably in the months to come.
