Hello! I’m sorry it has been a hot minute since I updated this platform of my whereabouts. I am currently in Chiang Mai, Thailand and will be staying here for the next 2 months!!
Here is a journal entry from today 1/23/20:
My teammates Kaitlyn, Kayla, and I met this little, sweet baby boy in the street food market where we live. He was maybe 4 years old and was selling peanuts for less than a dollar. We bought some peanuts, and being the kid-loving World Racers we are, we attempted to talk to him and play with him the best that we could.
Obviously we don’t speak any Thai, with the exceptions of “hello” and “thank you”, and the little boy does not speak any English. We communicated through playing hand games, thumbs up or thumbs down motions, and comparing our arm muscles haha. He’s the arm wrestling champion of the night 😉
Oh how I pray he will grow up knowing and loving Jesus. And, I pray he knows just how loved he is.
I pray he grows up a brave and mighty servant of the King. And, I pray he becomes a prayer warrior.
I pray he moves mountains in the name of Jesus Christ.
I pray that he will forever hold all of his hope in Jesus.
I pray that his smile will shine brighter than ever before and that it will bring happiness to everyone he meets, just like it did for me tonight.
I pray freedom over this little boy.
I pray that that he grows up firm in his identity of who the Lord created him to be as a son of Christ.
He is fully seen, fully heard, fully known, and fully loved by our Father.
Rejection is a lie he’s very familiar with. As he sells his peanuts, I pray he’ll be welcomed with open arms and looked at with kindness, rather than being thought of as a bother. For in the eyes of Abba Father, Jesus Christ, this little boy deserves all the love and kindness in the world.
With Jesus, he will never know the pain of rejection again. And that my friends is the most beautiful thing, because with Jesus, none of you have to know the pain of rejection.
He is always watching out for you. He is always ready to receive you just as you are, even if it looks like you just got out of bed and have sleep in your eyes and drool on your face. There is no mess or imperfectness God can’t handle.
So I’m not just praying this prayer over this sweet baby boy I met tonight. I am praying this prayer over all of you and anyone I’ll ever meet.
I went into these next two months of Thailand very unsure of my time here. I was very worried that I would be unhappy and discontent because I loved our last country so much. Now that I have been here for a couple weeks, God has surprised me once again and shown me that no matter where He takes me, it will be good.
Thats all I have for now.
Hopefully I will update soon.
Love, Megs 🙂
