So I’ve been off the grid this month, not keeping everyone updated like I like to. Part of the reason is because I had to deal with some kip stuff at the beginning of the month that was just way too emotional and I’m still trying to figure out how I’m dealing with it. But that’s not this blog this is something else.
Every morning we attend a 7am bible study and pray for a few hours. It’s a discipline that I was dreading at the beginning of the month (partly because there is no heat where we’re staying and it was torture to crawl out of my warm bed to sit in a freezing room, luckily we’ve had a heat wave now!) but now it’s turned into one of my favorite parts of the day.
We were sitting in the foyer/gathering area outside of the sanctuary having our bible study in English with our Holland contact, it was my 7 team members, the pastor and his wife, 3 men from another church who were installing the radiators, and a young man who is living here with us; American’s at one table, Serbian/Holland(ers?) at the other. We’re sitting in community, reading about our Heavenly father, drinking tea and eating cookies, and it just hit me how cool this event is. We don’t speak the same language. Our contact is translating everything that’s being said back and forth between us all, yet, we’re sitting together as Brothers and Sisters in Christ, reading the Word together! How stinking cool!
I wonder if, when God had to change the languages when the people were building the Tower of Babel, He knew that one day we’d be able to come together again, language barrier set aside and still gather together in his presence!
One of the coolest parts of the race is going into all these cultures and seeing how they worship and preach to their people about the same God I’ve given my life to.
