As I sit here tears well up in my eyes.
You think by now I would know what it takes to live the life of a racer.
I fully understand what it feels like to fall in love with people all over the world and then have to leave them. I would like to say I have a formula to cope with this but I know now it truly never gets easier.
Coming back to squad lead for K- squad has been one of the best decisions I have ever made. I have been challenged and rewarded by my squad. I have rejoiced and I have cried.
Today I am feeling something completely different but not unfamiliar. Sadness.
As a squad leader my “ministry” is my squad but it doesn’t stop the fact that I have the opportunity to do ministry with the teams at their sites. This month I have been with a team at Wipe Every Tear; an anti-trafficking organization for vulnerable women who are working in the bars here in the Philippines.
These girls that we live with are as young as 12 years old. The things these girls have been through are incomprehensible .
I have been living life with them and I have seen the redemptive power of God. I have asked God over and over again, “HOW POWERFUL ARE YOU THAT YOU CAN REDEEM SUCH DEATH AND DARKNESS?” It is just one of those things I will never fully be able to rap my mind around. One of the most beautiful things to experience is a girl once trapped ultimately for her body able to laugh, dance, and love again.
That girl is no longer just “a girl” to me she is my friend, the little sister I never had.
I would give my right arm if I had to just to protect her from any harm.
This month seems full of simple moments a kiss on the cheek, a hug, or walking hand in hand but it was more than that. It was full of Christ’s love.
I find myself leaving tomorrow and knowing once again my heart will have another piece broken off and left with these incredible girls.
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Financial update:
I have $400 left to raise for my first deadline of $3500.
My second deadline I will need $1500 by March 1st.
My third/last deadline another $1500 by June 1st.
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