I have been in the Philippines for just over a week now and in some ways, that doesn't feel accurate. In fact, in some ways, it feels like I have lived an entire lifetime in several days.
I have gotten to sit with six year olds and tutor them in reading and math, do construction, do a feeding in a local community, play with street kids, go to church, and volunteer in the children's home. And wherever I am in the world, I have always been struck by children. Struck by their joy, their love, their trust, their play. That despite anything that surrounds them, their joy is unstealable, unable to be taken quickly.
And I am always struck about how children love to be chased. And how sometimes someone just needs to chase after them so that they know that they are worthy of pursuit.
Because they are.
I was thinking today about how even already there are things I have seen that will be forever written on my mind and heart. There are stories, faces, tears and eyes I encounter, that will mark me forever.
And as I collide with eyes and hearts and stories, I see Jesus.
Jesus looking back at me.
And it wrecks me in the best way possible.
Because even though I don't have all the answers, and don't have it all together, Jesus is enough.
And to just get so captivated by His eyes, that wherever He is I go, wherever He is looking, whoever He is holding, whatever He is saying, I want it all.
My eyes will travel nowhere else but there.
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