My Revelation

Through the time I've spent with Clara and Florina this month God has revealed to me that

I have a heart for FAMILIES.  
 

<To read about Clara & Florina's Story see Part 1 & Part 2: http://christinadombrowsky.theworldrace.org/?filename=miracles-in-romania-claras-story-part-2 >

And looking back, I have been drawn to families over and over again over the course of these past 4 months. Like the Sarugami family in Guatemala! (For more on the Sarugami Family, see #5 on Top 11 in Guatemala: http://christinadombrowsky.theworldrace.org/?filename=top-11-in-guatemala )
 
Someone told me at the start of this month to keep an eye out for things that ‘break my heart’ and develop in me ‘righteous anger,’ because that means it’s something ‘close to my calling’ – God has programmed all of us with some particular injustice that we just can’t bear to see, because He wants us to work on that particular thing during our time here on this Earth. And this month, God's given me the clear revelation that my heart breaks for families.
 
I think it’s because I have such a great family, that I see how its supposed to be –and I want everyone to have that …or at least have a family!
 

And then I started to reflect: growing up, my mom has always shown me the importance of "taking in orphans" (we’ve had family members, friends of family, and even entire families stay with us when they fell on hard times, so we’ve had long term house guest sporadically all through out my life – not to mention all the others we've had at our Thanksgiving dinner table or around the tree with us at Christmas) And my Mom's parents did the same thing.

And now I'm doing just that:

I'm loving on people, the way my Mom does!  

People who so desperately need that love. People who have never even seen that kind of love before.
 
Clara is SO blown away by the way we bring her food and visit her and pray for her; she is so blown away by the way we LOVE her! She is a new Christian and is just so dumbfounded by how people who don't even know her can love her like we do. She cries often when she thanks me for visiting. It really just makes her day! It’s so beautiful!
 
<And on an interesting side note: if you are wondering how Clara & me actually communicate, we speak to each other in broken Italian! She lived in Italy working for several years, I did a semester there in college and understand it pretty well, so she speaks to me in Italia and I speak back an interesting mix of Spanish & Italian & the little Romanian I have learned! It’s pretty fabulous how God takes care of these little details.>

 

So thank you to you and Mom and to the rest of my family for teaching me how to "love well" 🙂
 
 

Cheers!
To Family