So for month 2 of Thailand, my team and I had to switch things up. Long story short, we ended up moving from Wildflower Home to Connie’s Home. At first, I was really upset. It was so frustrating to me that we got to bond so well with the people at Wildflower just for our time to be cut short and for us to be thrown into yet another kids ministry. I thought that God wanted us at Wildflower and it just seemed like an impossible task to give that up knowing that our other friends would be filling our spots. We shared a lot of frustrations and questions but in the end that would change nothing.
I prayed for excitement and joy. I wanted to want to go to this new ministry and to love it just as much as I loved the other things that I have done. About a week or so before we had to leave our ministry at Wildflower Home the Lord answered my prayers. I started to put all the frustration and questions aside and I actually felt really excited to see what it would be like at Connie’s Home. By the time the last day at Wildflower came, I wasn’t as sad as I thought I would be. It had been amazing, but I realized that the Lord was moving us for a reason.
Connie’s Home was a dream! Connie is an amazingly strong woman who loves so well and is filled up so much by the love of God. She and her husband take in sick orphaned babies and they raise them as the babies get healthy and until they are adopted. I was with the older 5 older kids which ranged from 5-7 years old. She also hires Thai staff to help take care of the kids. The staff are all women finishing their sentence in prison but have had good behavior. The Lord is moving in such incredible ways there! On one of our very first days, we got to see an adoption and it has been so exciting to see loving people who have chosen to nurse sick babies back to health when the rest of the world has chosen to abandon them.
Those kids may have started out sick and helpless, but now they are so full of life it’s almost overwhelming! They have so much energy and joy they could run around all day long if we let them! I had the amazing pleasure to play with them, teach them lessons, sit with them, and love them.
Starting with a little frustration, my heart quickly grew to love every single one of those kids! The joy that they bring into the world is so incredible and I get to thank the Lord that He changed my plans and moved me to Connie’s Home! Thank you, Jesus, for changing my frustration into joy!!
