The right here and the right now for me is Myanmar. I am living in the unfamiliar here. Very few people speak English, the food is very different than any other culture I have experienced, and as white people we stick out like sore thumbs, plain and simple. But it’s full; this place is so full. I’m working with preschool kids, playing games and singing songs and laughing because they don’t understand a single word I speak. I have never sweat this much in my life, but I absolutely love it. The Lord is pursuing me in the right here and the right now, and I’ve finally started to step out of myself and allow him to pursue me.
If you didn’t already know from my previous blogs, my soul connects with music. I can’t explain it but it’s definitely my love language. Lyrics of songs just speak directly to my soul. As I have begun to fall in love with life in Myanmar, the Lord has been singing La Reyna by Penny and Sparrow over me:
“What kind of day do you want this to be, cause I sure would like to give it to you. We can go out on a mission or maybe just watch TV. We can do you whatever you wanna do. We’ll be movers and shakers and leaves on a tree, we can talk smart or just act a fool I don’t really care, It doesn’t matter to me because I know that I’ll be with you.
Yes I know that I’ll be with you. Life could get hard, I could lose my job, safety is not promised to me. If everything crumbles I have to pull through, and I know it’s no guarantee. We’ll be movers and shakers and leaves on a tree, we can talk smart or just act a fool, I don’t really care, it doesn’t matter to me because I know that I’ll be with you. Yes I know that I’ll be with you.”
The sweetest love song. The Lord has constantly been telling me that life with him is just simply so much better than any life the world could promise. He is so much better and so much sweeter and he is faithful and he is a gentleman. He longs to take us on dates and spoil us and love us with a love that we so deeply deserve. The lyrics of the song just really get me, he just wants to spend time with me and do life with me. This is something that I have really taken to heart as I begin to prepare for my next season of life: home. Home is scary! I have grown so much in my identity in the Lord and in the truths of his heart. It’s going to be hard to not revert to old ways or to forget everything that I have learned and grown in. The Lord just wants to do everything with me, he wants to walk alongside me and watch tv with me and sit with me when I am upset. His love is just so pure and so sweet. I am walking into a season of learning to by the bride of my King.
If you haven’t listened to La Reyna by Penny and Sparrow, I highly recommend listening to it! Just such a pure love song.
Quick update, my race is coming to an end very quickly! I have a little less than a month left on the field. I will be heading home soon, and I would love to catch up and share experiences when I am home! Don’t be afraid to reach out : )
