God is faithful.
I heard it loud and clear on the bus ride from Albania and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. What is it to really have faith? What does it look like to trust God with every person you cross paths with? In every circumstance you find yourself in?
Working with the refugees these last two weeks has been rough. My teammate Tabitha and I talked about going through every emotion possible while at the transit site. From happiness, to anger, to straight up tears, we felt it all every day.
Its difficult to explain to you everything we’ve witnessed and are helping with, partly because I’m not entirely sure I’ve processed it all myself. My apologies in advanced for any rambling or half formed ideas or thoughts.
We saw everything from children freezing and in soaking clothes to little old men and women standing outside wrapped in blankets just waiting for us to let them into the tent to give them dry clothes. We witnessed people fainting from having had nothing to eat in a few days. Mothers coming in distressed and in tears because they’ve lost their child at sea.
We heard about smugglers sending 300+ people on small wooden boats because they ran out of rafts. We heard of the boats capsizing and people being lost at sea.
We heard about death.
People drowning and their bodies being washed up on shore to be later found by volunteers cleaning up the shoreline of rafts and life vests.
Its been a rough two weeks. But through it all, God is Faithful has not left my mind once. It has settled itself into my heart and repeated itself to me over and over again. God’s message to me won’t be ignored.
Its what I’ve learned most out here. It’s what I’m continuing to learn as I go through life. I feel at peace here, being able to help, being able to actually do something for someone. Its all difficult to see, but its also all difficult to leave.
I’m still not entirely sure what it looks like to have faith that will move mountains, but I know it’s something I will continue to strive for. And I know that God is Faithful. No matter how much pain you’ve gone through, or how bad the situation looks. No matter how many people you see in pain and struggling to survive, He is faithful and His plan will come through.
He is faithful out here on the Island of Lesvos. He is faithful to these people fleeing their countries. He is faithful in this dire situation.
God is faithful.
He’s got it under control.
