This month has been a crazy one, that’s for sure. It’s also been ridiculously busy. My team and I have pretty much had every day from somewhere around 6 or 7 am till 9 pm, sometimes later, planned and scheduled for us. So finding time to sleep, write a blog, read, or just simply do nothing has been challenging. I don’t want to say impossible, because that sounds like an excuse. But honestly, it has been hard. I say this because sitting here trying to write my first blog in weeks seems a little overwhelming. God has been doing great things this month, so how do I pick and choose what to share?
Earlier this month, Mark talked with us about looking for the miracles of God. He reminded us that miracles aren’t always big. That being able to give some local teens our leftover homemade pizza is a miracle to them. That listening to the laughter of the children at the finca each day is a miracle. He referenced 2 Peter 1:16 “We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.” He challenged us to look for the majesty of God each and every day, to open our eyes to what God sees.
So instead of writing a blog full of profound statements or going into huge details about what majesties of God I have seen this month.
- When I am sick and exhausted, and a little girl at the daycare keeps saying “Cabellito! Cabellito!” (Horsy! Horsy!) while pointing to my shoulders. And I know what she wants, but I don’t want to oblige, but then something in me says, “Say yes.” (If you don’t know what that something is, it was the Holy Spirit.) As the little girl shrieks with joy in my ear, I hear the majesty of God.
- As the little second graders seek me out to give me huge hugs in the breezeway between classes, because my team and I have been given the opportunity to minister to them several days a week and form a relationship with them, I feel the majesty of God.
- As the same lady, Rosa, serves me lunch each day (and does so many more things for this squad), I see the majesty of God in her servant spirit.
- Hearing the testimony of a 12 year old boy share how he started being a discipleship leader at the age of 11, and even though his best friend was killed, and even though sometimes his mom struggles to put food on the table, all he wants for his birthday (and wants it so badly that he cries when talking about it) is a passport to travel to other countries as a missionary because he refuses to go any direction except forward, I see the majesty of God.
- When I feel the Holy Spirit tell me, “I need that boy to have a passport,” so I talk with Mark to see if the squad can do that, and then present the idea to my squadmates who immediately graciously donate the money to make it happen, I see the majesty of God.
- When I see a gym full of 5-8 year olds on their knees, hands raised, eyes closed singing praises to their Creator, I see and feel the majesty of God.
- When the English teacher we’ve been working with all month gives my team the opportunity to lay hands on the 4th-6th grade boys and pray for each of them individually, and then I see the “cool kid” of the school get up and go to one of my teammates to lay hands and pray for him in return, I see the majesty of God.
This month has been crazy. Crazy busy, but crazy awesome. Working in one of the local K-6 schools has been so wonderful. We have been teaching English, and joining in on school assemblies that are biblical. We have been given several opportunities to not only love on the kids, but also share the Gospel with them. We have been blessed with some amazing hosts who have poured into us through some incredible teachings this month. My squad was all together, and we got to encourage each other, prophecy over each other, cook together, and learn to live life in a full community. Looking back, it’s incredible seeing how God has worked in and through my team and squad this month.
I encourage you to look for the majesties of God each and every day. The same Holy Spirit that is doing incredible things here in my squad, giving us visions, talking to us… it’s the same Holy Spirit that lives inside of you. It’s the same Holy Spirit in America. It holds the same potential and power, because God is always constant. Never changing.
