It’s been 3 weeks now since launch of the race. Ministry life here in Haiti is starting to feel routine and a lifestyle, which is fantastic!!! But now that things are settling in, the lord has given me time to reflect on living with community.
I wasn’t too worried about community life to begin with. I’m pretty comfortable living with people. Being in the military, growing up in a house hold that always had people, sleeping in a room with usually at least 3 people in it. I’ve always been surrounded by others. The difference now is the call to be intentional, to be vulnerable and authentically love those around me.
It’s easy to just let the days pass and do the work you are called out to do, but to encourage and love your neighbor the way Jesus loves you is something completely different.
1 Corinthians 13:3
“And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but not have love, it profits me nothing.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
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Making things less be about me, so that I can focus on loving others has always been a struggle. I’m always so caught up in the things that I need that I forget that Christ has already given me everything that I need!!! The spirit of the living God, the same spirit that resurrected Him from the dead lives within us!
As this race continues, my prayer requests is that I would be better at listening and becoming more aware in lifting up my brothers and sisters in Christ. To be intentional and authentic in my actions that edifies those around me. To be more sensitive to the needs of others knowing that I am complete in Christ.
To become less… so that the body of Christ may be lifted up.
