Awake my soul
As I lay on my second 22 hours bus ride in the past week here in Vietnam, I look outside and all I can think of is what is this life.
A jam session with air guitar, fist pumping, and endless smiles begins naturally as we listen to music, imagining each song is the soundtrack to our lives looking out at the rice fields in Da Nang.
These lyrics come flooding to my mind
And where you invest your love, you invest your life
Awake my soul
These past 5 months have awaken my soul to a life beyond my wildest dreams. A journey running after My Father’s heart.
The idea was proposed to me earlier this week:
“What if God has been here the whole time and we are the ones that have been asleep. We pray asking God to be present and with us but our perspective is off base. God has always been here and He’s just calling His children to awaken from their deep sleep.”
Awake my soul
The more people I meet around the world the more I question what the real meaning of poverty is. I find myself asking the question is it actually been me that has been living in poverty? Have I been asleep to the true meaning of life? Ive been living a life with everything at my fingertips, a life full of choices and abundance of things. A life full of distractions and no real need for God.
Then I meet a woman named Irene. Who survived the devastating typhoon Yolanda who now lives in a home with simple cement walls and sheets hanging separating the few rooms that her and her six children live in. Her smile lights up a room and as she watches her children play in front of the house trying to climb a slippery bamboo tree she cheers them on with loving eyes. She says to me “I don’t have much but I have the most important things God and my family”
She views the world with an awaken soul
Will I ever have that kind of pure joy?
Irene invited us to spend sometime with her on Christmas day. We sang karaoke together, drank a mountain dew, laughed with her beautiful children and prayed over her and her family. Irene looked at us and expressed she was feeling nervous as she giggled continuing on by saying how thankful she was for our friendship, ending by asking us to never forget her.
I thought to myself I will never forget you, my dear friend.
Here is a video I made for our time spent in the Philippines
