We’ve found paradise. Our team’s ministry time in Candelaria, Nicaragua has come to an end and we’re spending today and tomorrow with our hosts in and around Granada before our flight to Guatemala on Sunday. We’ve been truly blessed during our month in Nicaragua and some quality time being together its beauty is simply breathtaking.
Really? Thanks for being here, God!
I’m typing this now on our patio outside of our room. The air is cool and still. I can hear the chirp of bugs, the team downstairs, and Lindsey with her piccolo in the backyard. The diamond-like stars are out tonight and every now and then you can see lightning in the distance. Before the sun went down we could see the entirety of the lake we’re staying on that’s walled in by mountains and volcanos. God is a master artist.
His designs are perfect and His love is unending. He chose each of us to be a part of these two months in Central America. Each for different reasons that we’re still trying to figure out. But His intentions are pure and His calling is holy. He wants us!
Humbled each day, I am grateful for the chance to walk, trip, and leap on the path God has for me. I’ve learned so much in the few short weeks I’ve been leading these girls. More of myself has to die to the Holy Spirits leading. More of my pride and control need to be laid down before His thrown. I knew I couldn’t do this alone. Yet, I’ve been more frustrated that ever trying to put those small words into practice.
During training camp all God repeated to me was, “I want them. I want them. I want them.” God wants these girls. They are His. They’ve never been mine to lead.
Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, serving as overseers-not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not greedy for money, but eager to serve; not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.
1 Peter 5: 2, 3
He LOVES His children SO much. And I’ve only just begun to live that over the past year. I’ve been exhausted and running on fumes occasionally this past month because I NEED Him. ‘Cause I can’t love on my own. For such a time as this, these young women deserve to know/live His love.
Thanks, God, for being in the details. Thanks for being here!
