"I will extol my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable."
Psalm 145:1-3
So often I have to sit back and simply soak in each and every moment that I have been given and be so careful to not let the moments fly by. Time is a curious thing how it can move both fast and slow and indeed is a precious thing. It's also cool how without God giving us the gift of our memories and thoughts, time would essentially mean nothing. Every second of time that has a memory or thought encompassed in it is another moment of time that Christ is using to pursue His children and drawl them ever closer to His heart, giving us something to declare, our testimonies. It's absolutely beautiful and there are many times I just have to sit in this peaceful train of thought and praise God for who He was, is, and is to come and how He is beyond time and so far beyond my tiny little mind.
This makes me happy.
At this season in my life God has planted me in the chaotic beautiful mess of the World Race in an tiny orphanage for disabled children in Guatemala and I so often find myself asking ……
HOW? HOW DID I GET HERE???
And some days I still feel like I have no clue how I got here …I just know that for whatever reason the Father plopped me here in the middle of Guatemala and I wouldn't want to be any where else in the world. He is so sweet in that, "He who started a good work in me will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." (Phil. 1:6) He's not going to give up on me. He drawls me in with sweet intimations of love and sometimes with difficult trials set before me for my good.
He is a good Father.
I see His beauty marked on each and every face of each child I am working with and in the hands and feet of each servant on my team that He has placed with me. And it's an understatement to say that the supernatural love I have acquired for these people is truly overwhelming. His love shines so beautifully through our messy lives and is only proven further when He says, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."
Annnnnd I am indeed weak.
But His Spirit is indeed strong in me. I am learning this more and more with every memory that is contained in a moment of time that is given to me. I find myself daily seeing my weaknesses before me. Those moments when I simply do not feel like doing the dishes, cleaning up the poop, waking up at 5:30 in the morning, or eating rice and beans for the one hundreth time. It's in these moments of weakness that the Father intends for my good. And praise God for this for I surely could not do this on my own, it is indeed through His power.
God is teaching me so much in these last few months, whether its in moments of super annoying tasks that I simply do not feel like doing or in the beautiful moments when I have to catch my breath at the splendor of Him, His Creation, and His Body. May my heart learn to echo with the apostle Paul, "I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I weak, then I am strong." (2 Cor. 12:9-10)
I also like to count every cent that I have been given to be on the World Race as a minute. So if you would like to donate a lot more minutes to my trip I need about $3,000 more to stay on the race! You just click the "Support Me" link to the left.
God bless ye merry gentlemen! (and ladies) Peace.
