You’re on my mind and in my prayers.
The other day I thought of you – we went to this children’s daycare home for mentally disabled kids. I was helping out in the craft room. The kids were doing a sewing craft. The teacher asked me to teach the girl next to me how to sew a button. She gave me this small square of purple fabric and a few buttons the two of us could choose from. So we started sewing buttons.
I was pleased with her sewing skills, she did great threading the needle and knowing how to tie a not in the thread. She even did really good finding the holes in the button to slide her needle through. After we had both finished our buttons, I looked around at what else I could do with her. I saw some beads…that’s it. We’ll just decorate our fabric with beading work.
I started making a pattern around the button. The girl had a bit of trouble threading the beads so I put them through the needle for her. As we sat and worked I couldn’t help but think of that time we went to Young at Art and sat in chairs way too small bending over our sketchbooks and creating art with no more vision than playing around, experimenting and letting the mind go for a half an hour. My mind wondered off to what you might be doing and where you’re at.
Do you know I often pray for you? It breaks my heart that you don’t know Jesus in the way you could, as a savior, a friend, a lover, a comforter….
I was brought back to reality when the girl next to me started singing the Sunday school kids song “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so…”
In whatever capacity the girl sitting next to me had to understand the world around her, this part she did know; that Jesus loved her.
We didn’t talk about Him while we were together – we don’t even speak the same language – but that fact that Jesus loves us and cares for us was evident.
I reached a point in my design where I didn’t know what to do next, I kind of hated it. Familiar story, right?
The teacher peaked over my shoulder and said one word, “heart”.
I looked down, and there it was. I had half of a heart on my fabric.
Usually, I would just find hearts cliche and disregard them, but for some reason, this one wasn’t. And with the song of ‘Jesus loves me’ in the air and kids joining in as the room filled with the melody, I finished my heart and I grew a desire to write you.
I hope that just as that little girl knew that Jesus was part of our interactions with each other, I pray that you have sensed something spiritually different in the times we’ve spent together. I haven’t said all that I’d wish to say to you about having a relationship with Christ and what mine is like cause I didn’t want to turn you off.
But my friend, I love you too much to not tell you anymore.
Jesus is the thing that changes your life.
You can’t be a spiritual person drawing a way of life from many different sources. Jesus is the only source. He’s the way the truth and the life and the only way to God.
He’s completely changed my life.
The relationship I have with Him is incredible, unbelievably good, hard as anything but so worth everything. It’s because of Him that I’m trekking around the world for this year of my life.
He’s faithful to continue to change me as I discover more about Him and the world around me.
I pray that you will know Him. Truly know Him.
Let’s skype soon. ok?
