It’s hard to believe that H Squad has entered into its last continent. We are currently in Romania and team Koinonia is staying with a gypsy pastor and his family.
It’s interesting because everyone categorizes one another by if they are gypsy or Romanian. I didn’t quite understand at first, but I’m learning to be gypsy is a lesser social class than Romanian. To be gypsy is looked down upon in their culture.
I was remembering this the other day with first impressions of my teammates and even some squad mates. I was quick to categorize and assume things about each of them- and God’s taught me how much that has hindered me in my life. If I didn’t give my teammates a chance, if I hadn’t listened to God in showing me all I needed to learn from each of them- I would not have allowed them to be used by God in the refining process of my life.
God teach us to delight in your creativity, to yearn to have variety in our lives, to be stretched in friendships. God may we forgive those who have treated us as “gypsies” or rejected us and may we repent for those we have rejected and treated as “gypsies”. May we accept others as you accept each of us.
