To give you a little update for those of you who do not know the ministry that my team and me are participating in at the moment, it is working with disabled orphans in Guatemala. Being hear with the children has showed me that my definition of normal is totally screwed up, and I am realizing every day that I really have no clue what that word means, But one thing I do know is that I think that these kids are the closest thing to normal that I have come in to contact with for a while.
The reasons vary from child to child for why they are hear in the orphanage, but I feel that many peoples definitions of the children hear might be helpless, hopeless, uneducated, crippled, slow and just not normal. To tell you the truth when I first got here that was the mindset that I had also, but I realized that what I defined as normal had to do with a good education, a stable family life, being able to have an actual conversation, eating on your own, whiping your own butt, putting on your own clothes and walking on your own.
I am realizing that normal to God has nothing to do with the outside appearance but with the heart. But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7.
Now when I think about normal I think of the kingdom of heaven. In the kingdom it will be normal to love all people, in the kingdom it will be normal to smile all the time, in the kingdom it will be normal to laugh all the time. In the kingdom it will be normal to never worry or to get made. trying to hurt people on purpose with the intent to kill their spirit. To always have the Desire to be friend a person that you have never see in your life, but the most important one of all, never being afraid to love. The most normal thing about these children are there hearts and it reflects through their actions, their smile, there laughter and there eyes. So if this is the true definition of what normal is to our God, then these are the most normal people I have ever met in my life!
