Note: I wrote this blog about a week ago
So it is month 7 of the race and I am currently sooooo exhausted, sitting in a Starbucks, drinking someone else’s cold coffee, trying to keep my eyes open, and attempting to be comprehensible. Why am I so tired? Well our team worked over 12 hours yesterday completely transforming the girl’s house. We had a very unique opportunity this month with our budget. Our contact is allowing us to stay for free and give a donation if we please. We decided to put money aside for the donation and use the rest to help fix up the house.
We woke up and were hard at work starting at 7am. I literally painted the entire day. It was exhausting and I was probably high off paint, but the house is so fresh. We wanted to bring life into the house and God’s hand was ALL over this day. How we painted an entire house with murals, hung curtains and photos, fixed some floor pieces, scrubbed the floors and bathrooms, and had some PHD (Pizza Hut Delivery) in 13 hours is beyond me.
Somehow everything came together so perfectly. The house looks a million times better than we expected it would and we did not think that our prayers for restoration in the house would be so intense. It is a great example of how God transforms us in ways we cannot explain. Miracles were performed that day and only God could have given us the energy to work that hard for so long without passing out. It was so worth it to see the girls come in and jump for joy, come to tears, and model in front of the murals.
Words cannot explain this day, what happened, the transformation, the excitement, the sweat, the glory. I hope this video shows you a little bit of what happened.
