I lost my cell phone.
Ok, that's not entirely true . . .
Jesus stole my cell phone.
Seriously.
This is not a joke.
Don't believe me? . .
Well, see, what happened was . . .
Today was a travel day.
We moved from Granada, Nicaragua from debrief into our actual ministry sites for the month.
Travel days are usually pretty hectic and today was no exception.
I spent part of my morning running errands as team treasurer
and the remainder of my morning trying to clean up the hostel we were blessed to stay in.
I was enjoying the cleaning and entertaining the idea that in a mere few hours
I would find myself on some type of transportation
(because you never know WHAT until it arrives here on the world race)
for five hours to our site with earbuds in my ears and the false belief that I could create some alone time.
After the hostel was decent looking, I gathered my belongings so that I would be ready to go when our means of transportation showed up.
And my phone wasn't among them.
It had been sitting in the same spot, on the same table, for hours and now, was missing.
After a thorough search of the hostel and the (hopefully true) conclusion that it was probably mistaken for someone else's on the squad, I sat down defeated and pondering.
Not only did I just lose a pretty pricey piece of technology, but I also felt like I lost everything; all of my notes, passwords, my music, podcasts, pictures, everything.
I lost my 'alone time.'
But, there's no time to pout on travel day so I hiked up my big girl panties, wiggled into my pack, and walked out the door to our method of transportation; the bed of a truck with metal piping to keep us from falling out and a bench around the perimeter.
I plopped down on a pack as the truck rolled down the road and realized that this was going to be a looooooong ride.
Five hours,
one stop,
three detours,
and a few sunburns later,
I arrived in Chinandega, Nicaragua ready for our ministry month
and holding a whole new perspective on my MIA cell phone.
Jesus stole it.
No, REALLY!
He did it for three reasons:
1. He's teaching me to just be and live in the now.
(I mentioned in my 'ramble reflection' that God's showing me that I need to live in the 'now.' Taking away my technology and convenience takes away the distraction of being in any other moment than the one I'm standing in.)
2. I need to learn Thai.
(God's putting it on my heart to make a sincere and solid effort towards learning it before we land in Thailand in a few weeks)
3. Wi-fi equals texting
(When my phone has wifi, I can text which is fine except that it was too big of a temptation. While that in itself is a rather long story, I do firmly believe that God will never give you more than you can handle and He's recognized that I'm not strong enough yet.)
He took it.
And you know what?
I'm perfectly ok with that.
And being sincerely honest, I'm glad that He did.
I'm enjoying be transformed into the woman He's calling me up into,
even if it means losing my cell phone.
He can steal it anytime.
In fact, He can steal anything, anytime because His ways are so much better than mine. 🙂
<3tasha
