Hello from Village of hope in Estonia.
Coming into this month I came into it differently then I had any of the others. To be honest I wasn’t looking forward to being a lumberjack I can’t really say why, I just remember seeing the team that was here before us and thinking man I really don’t want that ministry contact. Which I realize is a very selfish thought. I really didn’t know much about this contact and what it was about beside it was a rehab center for men and they were in the forest chopping down trees.
When Cori got the team assignment for us last month, before she even told us I knew we were going to be here. This was the first time I really didn’t want to be where we were going. I still don’t really know why I didn’t want to come here. But I did my best to have a good attitude about coming here. Trusting that where my team was placed was where my team and I needed to be this month.
Now I don’t feel like I am a very girly girl. Hard work doesn’t bother me. I enjoy it. I don’t mind getting dirty. But there is just something about going out to the forest every day that I just don’t’ enjoy all that much. It has become a challenge for me that before we go out to the forest to make the choice to do it with a good attitude, to choose Joy, to choose to have fun. When I do choose those things, I find ways to make it more enjoyable for me, like playing mushroom baseball, to throw sticks into the creek and watch them float away, to goof around with my team. There is tons of time for thinking to be done out there, to talk to God. You just have to use it to your advantage. It’s the world race, I’m sure this will not be the last time I come across having to do things I don’t enjoy. So I guess it is good practice for me on having to choose the right attitude, joy, and goofing off with my team.
So yes, life is full of things we don’t like to do, but how much more enjoyable can they be when you choose to do it with a good attitude, to choose joy?
Keep an eye out for my next blog.. its about Village of Hope. You will not want to miss it. believe me. 🙂
