So what has been going on?… so very disconnected and loving every minute of it. I was never a big fan of instant communication but now with internet maybe once a week I am feeling very connected only with what is in my direct sphere of influence(thank you Stephen R. Covey). What is in my sphere of influence? Well, we are at the Faith Children’s Home in Malabalay, on the Island of Mindanao, in the Philippines.
The responsibility of my team and one other(team sisterhood) has been to take shifts at the orphanage with both infants, toddlers, and younger boys and girls up to age fourteen. There are 26 total kids at the home. I think the highlight of each day is enjoying the fact that our only responsibility is to love the children.
“We can do not great things, only small things with great love. It is not how much you do but how much love you put into doing it.” – Mother Teresa
I have been lucky enough to have been graced with this quote this week and have made this my prayer… that I may shine with the love of Christ. In different seasons of life we all fall into trying to do too much with the time that we have(I know I do). The result of this tendency is we tend to live with our mind… and forget about our heart. God gave us an amazing capacity to gain knowledge but that means nothing without being able to love. Love is time consuming, requires reflection, compassion, mercy, and can get ugly.
But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
my avocation and my vocation
as my two eyes make one in sight
— Robert Frost
"Many of us live one-eyed lives. We rely largely on the eye of the mind to form our image of reality. But today more and more of us are opening the other eye, the eye of the heart, looking for realities to which the mind’s eye is blind. Either eye alone is not enough. We need “wholesight,” a vision of the world in which the mind and hear unite, “as my two eyes make one in sight.” Our seeing shapes our being. Only as we see whole can we and our world be whole." – Parker J. Palmer
The church needs more people to think whole… to see the world as it is and cast a vision for what It could be.
Kevin
