Coming to Asia, people look really different. Everyone is darker. Everyone has brown eyes and dark hair and the majority of people are really thin. So as you can guess, a short blond hair girl with green eyes like me sticks out like a sore thumb! My first month in Asia was in the country of Thailand. The first few days there we learned about the culture. The Do's and Don'ts and what to expect while living here. One of the things our contact told us was, "If someone asks you why you are so fat, please don't take offense!" Everyone here is pretty much the same size so when they see someone different than them, there automatic response is to ask why?
So I found myself walking around a Muslim village in Kampong Cham, Cambodia praying for people. As I was walking down a dirt road with houses on stilts all around me, I look to my left and I see a Cambodian woman looking at me. As she looks as me, she has a beautiful smile on her face. She then grabs here stomach and plays with her fat and points at me insinuating the question, "Why you so fat?", "Why is your stomach so big?"
I feel like if I were in America at this point and had that question asked to me, I would probably go run away and cry in my room for about a week. But the Lord has called me to a different place and is making me into someone different than who I used to be. Someone who actually believes what her God says about her! As that lady gestured that to me, the only thing running through my head was….
You are loved!
You are beautiful!
You are worthy!
You make me so proud!
I truly feel in that moment the Lord was speaking to me. I feel like He always speaks these things to me, I just choose to ignore it. But I no longer want to live a life denying the things that God says. I'm going to walk in who He has created me to be and there is nothing more beautiful than that!
I have been on the World Race for 6 months now. I am half way through this amazing trip. I have been to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Thailand, Malaysia, and now I'm here in Cambodia. I have been able to share the gospel with people, hold hands of orphans and share with them how loved they are, I have been able to love street kids and let them know the hope they have in our Saviour Jesus, I have made friends and shared the love of Christ with prostitutes, I was able to raise money for kids who need heart transplants at a Christian hospital, I'm able to give English classes to some of the sweetest kids I think I'm ever going to meet, and I'm learning more and more about the goodness of our God, that I am who he says I am, "a loved and cherished daughter of a mighty King!" I am learning how to walk that out more and more every day. On July 1st is my last financial deadline for the World Race. In order to continue the race and travel to the next 5 countries I need to raise $4,450. Please pray and consider helping me raise this money. I truly believe there is so much more for me to learn in these next 5 months and that there are people that God wants me to reach out to and love. If you are interested in helping me finish the race and partnering up with me with this amazing ministry, all you need to do is click on the support me tab on in the left hand corner of the page. You can donate any amount. No amount is to small! I thank you in advance for reading this blog and being apart of this journey with me!
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