It’s More Than A House

Team Post Office’s last week of ministry in Cambodia
was spent repairing the home of a widow in the community and her son.

We installed bamboo flooring, built and installed new sides,
and redid the roof (can you say a whole new list of skills to add to the resume
when I get home?).

 

This was the end result.

 

 

The squad leaders paid us a visit in the middle of the
project, and Noe put together this video about it.

 

(Note: We’ve never fully established his name, but we think
it was Biu)

 

 

 

There were two things that got me while we were working on
the house. One was how small this house was (one room).

Two was how crazy it was that this thirteen year old kid was
there with us in the mornings and part of the afternoons – working on his own
house.

It doesn’t seem fair, does it?

Really, who am I that I grew up in a place where a house
like this would have been condemned before it was built?

What in the world did I ever do to be blessed like that?

 

The answer is nothing.

God chooses to give to us, regardless of what we have or
have not done to deserve it. He gave up His perfect Son so we could even have a
chance at a relationship with Him.

It’s nothing I deserve.

But it’s a gift, like my life back home before the Race has
been a gift.

A gift I’ve complained about.