Ah Cambodia. The time I spent in Cambodia this month was so many different things.
In the first week and a hlaf at our ministry site I was feeling pretty discouraged in the ministry. I couldn’t figure out my place and passion there. We were working in an orphanage part of the time, and teaching English at the church part of the time. I loved both of those ministries very much, but I couldn’t find where my heart really was. The kind of ministry that I am most passionate about is one-on-one discipleship, and I had none. I felt like everyone else on my team had found where God wanted them, and I was just there going with the motions of scheduled minstry. I didn’t like this. I began to pray that if the Lord wanted to show me different kinds of ministries that I wasn’t used to, then to give me a passion for whatever He wanted me to do this month. I wanted to be happy wherever He put me. Eventhough I know where I feel the most comfortable and confident in discipleship, that may not be what He wanted for me.
After about 2 weeks of praying about the ministry set before me, the Lord led me to a girl in a silk shop. On one 
of my days off I was walking along the River Front, and I wandered into this small silk shop. There was a young girl sitting by herself at the front desk. She spoke pretty good English, so I started talking to her. She asked me what I was doing in Cambodia, and I told her I was there teaching English at a local church. Right away her eyes lit up and she exclaimed, “church! I want to know more about God and I want to learn more English!” WOW talk about God’s plan. So I told her that she could come to the classes and we teach the Bible as well. She sadly said that she couldn’t because she works EVERYDAY from 6am-9pm. So then I told her I could come to her if she can’t attend the classs. So after that I began to go to the silk shop everyday at 1pm to teach the Bible and English to my new God given sister. I have never met someone with such a heart and passion to know both English and Christ.
One of the questions I have asked the Lord so many times in my life is, ‘why do You bring these amazing people and friendships into my life, and then take them away so quickly? I am only in one place at the most for 3 weeks, and you allow new friendships to come about, and then I have to leave them just as quickly as I found them. Why do you allow my heart to break every three weeks when I have to leave?’
Life happens in seasons.
