Adventures WorldRace SethBarnes Sponsorship Giving

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I’ve always known that I fall in love quickly and sometimes unknowingly. 

I walk around living life and then one day wake up to realize that the feeling in my heart is love.

In my former, pre racer life this love has broken my heart too many times to count.

My tendency to give and give and give of myself until there is nothing left often leaves me empty.

But today my heart is full.

My team and I have been spending time with some orphans here in Cambodia. 

I thought after the Philippines and falling in love unexpectedly with the boys from the Children’s Garden that I wouldn’t be caught by surprise again.

I was oh so wrong.

We’ve been spending a couple of hours a day with the kids and until today I hadn’t made any real connections. 
The kids don’t like to come outside in the heat so it’s hard to find anyone to play with us.

But today was different. 

Today was the Khmer New Year and the kids celebrated with a water fight. 

 

I had no idea that something so simple could burst down the walls of our hearts.

The thing about a water fight is the language you speak doesn’t matter. 

The only thing that matters is getting everyone you see really, really wet.

 
 

So we did that. 

We got each other really wet and in the process laughed together, worked together and opened our hearts together.

Since that water fight I have made some true heart connections. 

Now when I walk through the gates of the orphanage and peak in the kids rooms they come out to greet me. 

Their smiling faces and small hands pull me out into the sun to the trampoline where they ask me to jump.

And I am happy to give and give and give and give until my legs won’t jump anymore and my shirt can’t hold another ounce of sweat. 

And despite all this giving my heart is full.

My heart is full of love for these children who are so hungry for it.