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    This morning we ended up helping the boys with their homework. It was a bit frustrating at times but all in all successful. As I scanned the room looking at my teammates pour into the kids, I saw a boy named Ming. He was struggling this morning. Ming is a young Asian boy. He may have some mental issues but most of all he needs attention and love; Real love. I saw him struggle with my teammate to do his work. He wouldn’t pay attention to his work and just do it. He wanted to run around and play; have his own agenda. He was disrupting the other boys who were doing their work. He began to pout at the table and wouldn’t respond to any question. It was at this point my teammate sat him in her lap and held him. He squirmed and cried in her arms. He sat and cried for about ten minutes before he caved in. He wasn’t violent with her only cried and tried to get away. My teammate was so patient and loving in that moment. Ming didn’t need someone to give up on him in that moment; he needed someone to love him. I saw my teammate this morning be the hands of Jesus this morning.

 
   How often do we fight Jesus? How often do we sit and pout; wanting to do it our way? Instead of letting us go or punishing us, he just holds us. He holds us so tight that even as we try to pull away, we can’t. That’s what I’m beginning to love more and more about Jesus. He never lets go of us. As we grow and figure out life, he gives us a little wiggle room, we’ll call it grace but at the end of the day he is still holding us. He still clothes us in righteousness and wraps his arms around us. As Jesus does this work in me, I can’t help but become more aware of others. The love they need. The wrapping of arms around them like my teammate did so loving and firm for Ming.

   From the start of the Race I pretty much had it my head to save the world…crazy huh?! Maybe one day I will but for now I think the Lord has changed my perspective of this trip. Though we do go after the thousands, it may be about the ONE. I can’t save the whole crowd but there will be at least one in every thousand that I will get to know and wrap my arms around like Jesus. That’s what I want to seek out. I realize it’s such a great cycle God has created for his people. Such that as I learn things in my journey, it’s not meant to stay inside. Someone along the way will need to hear it or receive it. So I pray you continue to fall into a deeper presence with the Lord. That He shows you depths and heights like no other.

Seeking after His heart….