“No truth, no matter how profound will find its way into a heart that is absent of gratitude.” ERM
I have only been in Uganda for a little over a week and the Lord has challenged me to having a more passionate and generous heart for the things of God and flesh. For whatever it is worth, they haven’t been in big things as I thought I would find them. I have found them in the small things.
1. When driving from El Doret to Kampala and it was only suppose to be a five-hour drive that slowly turned into a thirteen-hour drive.
2. Volunteering to drive tractors in the field but instead being put doing labor work in the maze fields.
3. Not having enough paintbrushes to paint the school so the job taking twice as long.
4. Being told the van would pick us up in thirty minutes and we head out two hours later.
When we are grateful, we are most fully alive. As you can tell these are not things I was really grateful for. These are things that can make a week start going down hill fast before catching it in time to make it a good week. But I soon realized whatever I might need, whatever time schedule I might be on, whatever truth may aid me in my journey, nothing will heal me if I am ungrateful.
We have two more weeks in Lira, Uganda doing many things that will ask of my gratitude. This is my hope, “but if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.”(8:24-25)
