Wow our God is just so amazing. He’s working. He’s moving. He doing some crazy things.
I’ve known about the race for 3 years now and since I found out what the race was, it has been a dream of mine that I have thought about just about everyday.
I knew what this dream entailed and I had expectations but God made sure he had total control and he knew to knock down those expectations.
Starting work this past month at the orphanage, my team and I walked in with expectations. We had the expectations that we would be working with the kids every single day. Teaching them, playing games with them and just showing them the love God has for us. I wanted to show these kids hope and I wanted to make sure they knew they were loved unconditionally.
My team’s motto quickly came to be, that we CAN NOT carry expectations. At all. None whatsoever.
He made sure that we knew he had total control and that we were going to have to have faith in him and everything he has planned these next months.
My team and I spent the last month doing hard manual labor just about every day we were at the orphanage. He blessed us with spending one day a week with the kids.
At first I was thinking how all the manual labor was paid off by that one day a week with the kids. Seeing their smiles and hearing their laughs touched my heart deeply. Those kids made a genuine impact on my life.
But our ministry host Bud made an even bigger impact. He showed me what hard work and dedication can do. He taught me so much and has made me grow even more than I thought I would this first month here. Bud is living his dream at the orphanage. He gets to do hard work every day and gets to love these kids everyday.
Bud loves these kids through the hard work he puts in. He taught me I don’t have to interact with them directly, everyday to love them well. He showed me by the hard work we are putting in we are still showing them love. And we are successfully loving them well.
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love and am obsessed with Bob Golf. I’m obsessed with his book Love Does and Everybody Always (still in the process of reading his second book). After reading Love does I got caught up in just loving people well directly. I wanted to show them love and I wanted my face to be right there showing them that love.
I have come to realize more and more that’s not how it should be at all. Yes, everyone I meet I should love with my whole heart but that doesn’t mean my face should be right there. It means that my actions will reflect the love I want to show. It means that loving people should be shown through many different ways.
This past month has been filled with so much. I can feel God working in my life. He is having me grow as a person, he has me learning new things about myself and definitely learning new things about life. God is definitely challenging me. Every day I see new beauty in everyone that I meet and get to interact with. I see God working in those around me. I see them growing as people and with their faith in God.
I’m so excited to keep sharing more about what happens over the next few months and everything I learn. I can’t express my appreciation for all the support I have received. Thank you so much for all your comments and words of encouragement.
