There is a little boy that I love. I can't spell his name correctly so I won't try. When you pray for him just call him Adam's little buddy. I fell in love with this little boy about a week ago. He showed up where we live in Cambodia on our first day of class and has never left. Ok, that's a lie. Sometimes he leaves. But he spends the majority of his time hanging out with me and the rest of my team.
This little boy has no father figure to speak of in his life. His mother was raped and he was the result of that rape. God has used this child's history to show me how He can take something as ugly and sinful as rape and turn it into something beautiful. Having no father figure definitely shows in my little buddy's behavior. He is super mischievous and doesn't like to listen to anyone. He runs around acting crazy most of the time. When he isn't climbing the walls he is constantly asking us to play with our electronics. I let him use my iPad the other day and he completely disabled it. I am going to have to do a complete restore and lose everything I saved (which isn't much, but still). When I saw that my iPad was disabled I was upset. My little buddy didn't see me upset but I was. So because I was upset I started to pray.
I was praying about my little buddy and meditating on how to better minister to him and pour the Father's love into him, when God showed me a few things. God showed me that I run around acting like a fool and He still loves me and doesn't withhold anything from me. He showed me that I come to Him constantly making requests to do things and He lets me do them whether I 'need' to or not. He showed me that I have completely disabled special things that He trusted me with yet He still trusts me with things.
Talk about having your mind blown. I asked for God to help me love my little buddy better. He did. But in the process He also revealed His love for me. The Father's love is limitless and unconditional. This is how we are to love. So here I go.
