PSALM 91 SAYS
He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the almighty (who’s power no foe can withstand).
Let me ask you a question what is your secret place? Aka your place of reflection and relaxation. Maybe its in your garden, at church, the local coffee spot, or maybe even the spa? Where ever it is im sure if you don’t visit it every now and then you go crazy right? Well welcome to my second month on the world race!
Before I explain more on that statement let me fill you in. For those of you who don’t know this month me and my team are working a Mi Casa Kids International it’s a children’s home for kids with no mother and father in the mix. The guys and the girls are split up between two large homes directly across the street from one another. There around 28 kids in total and each one of them is truly incredible and a blessing to my life.
A typical day at mi casa looks like this, me and my team get together for prayer around 8am then we pray and have breakfast. Then the painting, powerpoint making, and media creation for Mi Casa begins then we go hard at our tasks until 1:30. Whilst we are doing our tasks the offices for Mi Casa are buzzing with phone calls, food prep, and visitors buying rugs and dried peaches at the house. Then at 1:30m the kids arrive back from school. The noise, fun, and love level in the house increases a hefty amount. Then for the rest of the afternoon we help with homework, and any projects the kids have and maybe even watch some Disney channel together (all in Spanish of course so I carnt understand a word). Then we have dinner around 7am clean up from dinner around 9ish the kids go to bed. Then our team debriefs from the day and normally we get done with that around 10:30am we all pass out and wake up and do it again! I love it!!
The downside is finding my quite place, my alone time, and my refill time. I am learning to find the quite in the madness whever it be the 10 minute break I take from the paint fumes, or in a moment with the kids falling asleep in my arms or just watching some Disney channel. I am also finding I have to PUSH myself a lot harder. To wake up earlier so I can fit it in, to force myself to go to bed earlier. Whatever it takes so I can get filled to pour out.
Proverbs 11:25 says NKJV
The generous soul will be made rich, And he who waters will also be watered himself. THAT IS MY
PRAYER
In other news I went camping this weekend with 15 kids! It was so amazing we went to a place called Monte Cristo it was truly beautiful. We did a two hour hike to reach a very unique spot we stood in three places at once! It’s the point where El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras meet crazy stuff we were so high defiantly in the clouds it was great though. It was the first time a lot of the kids had ever been outside of the country! And I was a part of it! God did some great things on the trip and is doing great things through me and my team at Mi Casa Kids.
We asked one of the staff members at Mi Casa yesterday what do the kids need she said. They need to feel love, accepted, and as much education possible. I can confidently say we are helping in all of those areas with these kids. When the kids get home from school we give them a big hug and ask about there day, I wrestle with them, let them use my things (which is getting a little out of hand you know how kids are) spend hours with them on there homework, take them out with us when we go places, and try to teach them as much English as we can. In the process they are teaching me a lot of Spanish I love it im a slow learner but im getting there.
This month is drastically different than Antigua Guetemala but its drastically changing things inside of me that needed to be changed and giving me a drastic love for these kids, and for the people of Central America. Crazy to think in two months I will be in Eastern Europe! Completely different food, language, culture, climate, and spiritual atmosphere I say BRING IT!!
p.s. Thank you all for reading this and keeping up with my blogs, im doing this 11 month mission trip for reasons bigger than me. I hope that what God is doing in and through me will bless you and challenge to go to new places, show love where you didn’t think to show it before, and to step outside of your comfort zones its never to late to get a little crazy!
