This is something I haven’t had in a long time.
This is something I’ve lived outside of for even longer.
I knew God would do great things in giving me community again and he is teaching me now how to act with grace.
It’s not easy.
It’s not always fun.
It doesn’t always smell good.
Let’s face it; 50 people in one house: we smell like sloths.
However, through the difficult situations and in the midst of trying to find how to settle in that of which is less than comfortable, trying to find out the best way to learn how to know 50 strangers and how to take, react, and communicate with them; I have learned that there can always be positivity and even more so, humor. Here is a list of some things we find humor in. Some of these things you will understand, some you will not, and perhaps someday you will experience it yourself.
Facebook conversations via comments while laying next to the very person you are conversing with.
Flies: screaming at them, cursing at them, killing them, saying things under your breath, trying to save yourself from them, researching them and finding out facts such as this: Flies are creatures that land on rotting skin or decay; when they are wet they are secreting or vomiting. How delightful.
Late night belly button conversations – the deep, the skinny, and more importantly, the smelly.
Sharing a mosquito net to get away from flies while inside of a covered house.
Appreciation in the random butterfly picture hanging as the one and only decoration in the entire house.
Shower conversations and finding humor in the screams when the freezing cold water suddenly changes to scalding hot.
Eyebrow doctors doing work
Learning to clean people’s various articles of clothing, even if this clothing is under garments for someone of the opposite sex and even if this is a specific under garment you might have never seen IN person before.
Hearing the word ‘squishy’ but by a particular person with a particular voice.
Sick Snores – the kind where people can’t breath due to the heat on top of the sickness and this is the one and only reason why they are snoring in the first place. Video taking these said snores and saving the video for a good laugh on a rainy day.
The hash tags that only WE could understand: #isthatdogalive
Taking “Jeffies”
The realization that ministry is not always what you might have imagined. There may not be any orphanages near by, there may be a limited amount of kid’s clubs, or manual labor to do around the city or for a particular person in the church. Ministry can be different. Ministry can be unlike what we might have imagined. Ministry might be hard or just too easy. Ministry might make us feel like we aren’t completely useful or even being used at all but in the midst of these thoughts or realizations or conclusions; we should see that ministry is like a painting. Some people are the flowers, some people are the river, some people make the foundation to the house with the wrap around porch, or the sunset along the rolling slopes of the green streaked-stained countryside but just like ministry, the painting cannot work or be beautiful or even be a painting without the other colors that are used as fillers. There is always someone to share your testimony with even if that someone is a member on your team or the person laying across from you in a hammock. Ministry is being able to hang your squads’ clean socks on the clothes line to dry, encourage a team member to step out of their own comfort zones, trying to calculate what amount of food will feed 50 hungry mouths, or clean that of which will just get dirty. This is ministry and within the realms of ministry, is where a unity in community is found.
T-Squad is in Romania.
Ministry is in Romania.
There is unity in community and God is good.
Goody Goody
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