Here’s two entries from my journal that I wanted to share with you! It’s from our short yet life changing time in Asia. I pray the words leave a lasting impact on your heart. It certainly doesn’t fully describe my experience there. Honestly, I don’t know if this will suffice in magnifying what the Lord did for my team and my heart in Asia. But, as always my prayer is that you see past me and see instead the only One that matters, Jesus.
1.11.19 India
The past few days have been a chaotic whirlwind of not knowing what we are doing. It’s stretching us out of our comfort zone and teaching us to trust in the Lord. Plans change so much and communication barriers don’t help. From the outside perspective everything looks disorganized. But, isn’t it comforting that there’s a truth to all of this mess — we might not know, but God knows. Lord, you are my sound foundation and I trust that everything will always work out for Your good.
2.24.19 Nepal
We left Chitwan and took an 8 hour bus ride to Pokhara for our trekking ministry. The trek was one of the most physically challenging things that I’ve done on the race so far. The views were amazing. We looked onto the snow capped mountains, the low winding valleys, and the stone stairways placed years and years ago. There were gentle sound of leaves blowing, birds chirping, and monkeys chiming in. The eagles soared above us and the rays of the sun broke through the trees. Never in my life did I see such wonder. As I stood there with the Lord I just knew that this was just the beginning of everything else that He would allow me to see. I was tired from the trek. But I felt the Holy Spirit giving me breath as I sang songs to Him. I was reminded of the verse in John 4 — Jesus grew weary but His sustenance came from doing the Father’s will. Trekking this path gave us the opportunity to spread the Gospel to small villages. This is the Farher’s will. Like Jesus, we grew tired. But we couldn’t give up! Jesus didn’t. He kept going from village to village because the Gospel is for everyone. He wanted to give people a chance to believe. He needed to tell people that there’s a way to real life — through Him. At that moment I felt like His disciple. Then He whispered, “you don’t have to feel. You just need to know that you ARE my disciple.”
