Month 8 has come to a close and my heart is heavy.
It’s not always difficult to say goodbye at the end of the month but sometimes it is. This month is another difficult one.
We’ve been woking with these two orphanages this month, each one has so many special kids that I have come to adore in just a few short weeks.
These kids come from broken homes, some with absent or abusive parents. Some with siblings now in prostitution. The town they live in is small and dying so it doesn’t have many job opportunities. It breaks my heart when I think about it because I just don’t know what situations they could end up in. Will they succeed? Will they come to Christ? Will they end up as prostitues or drug addicts only to later put their own children in the same vicious cycle? I don’t want to think about it. It hurts my heart and there’s not much I can do. Which of course breaks my heart even more. I just want to fix things for them. Get them all apartments, jobs and send them to college. Give them Jesus and a future.
Unfortunately none of that is up to me. It’s unrealistic to do that on my own. All I can really do for them is love them while I’m here, tell them about Jesus and His love and when I leave, pray for them. Not just once but continually.
This year for the first time I realized how much I (and most people) discredit prayer. We literally say “all we can do is pray” and while that statement is true sometimes, prayer is MORE powerful than anything we can physically as mere humans do. I can’t provide every need of all 24 of these kids and every person that has touched my heart this year. Even though I wish I could. But HE CAN. As a believer, it’s my job to care for the orphans and widows and everyone in my path, and when I can’t do it on my own, my JOB is to pray for them. To pray for their salvation, their needs to be met and more.
This month we were able to do something special because of the help of our supporters (that’s you guys!)
We were able to meet a few tangible needs of the kids here. We bought them shampoo and conditioner(they didn’t own ANY conditioner.), deodorant, body spray, toothbrush, tooth paste, hair brushes, and a few small treats like candy and cookies. The other day when we said goodbye to the kids we got to hand out these special care packages and the reactions were priceless.
So I leave you with this,
THANK YOU! Thank you for allowing me to travel the world, meet these kids, to impact their lives and make memories with people all over the world.
Stop discrediting the POWER of prayer. Pray believing FULLY that the Lord is going to work and then leave it in His hands.
HE WILL WORK IN MIRACULOUS AND AMAZING WAYS. He can do EVERYTHING that we can’t.
