Being around such beautiful scenery this month I decided to set up my tent and sleep outside (Also we’ve been on the race for 6 months now and have only used my tent for a week in Thailand). So I sleep outside on the rooftop, which I love! Every morning I step out of my tent and see the gorgeous mountain and every night when I go to bed I see the night skyline of Kathmandu. It’s gorgeous! Every part of this place is a glimpse of the beauty of God. 
For the last week and a half I have been the only one sleeping outside, and on Saturday we decided to pray for 24 hours as a team. Each one of us prayed for four hours, and I was to end the night. As I’ve been reading through Samuel, Chronicles and Psalms I’ve been inspired by the amount of time David spent worshiping, so for my hours of prayer I decided I would go by my tent, plug in my iPod, worship, and if I didn’t know the words I would pray aloud for the things God has placed on my heart. For the first three hours I did this, singing as loud as I could and praying. I finally decided that, for the sake of our neighbors, I would continue in silent prayer, I turned off my iPod and then I heard it. Turning red from slight embarrassment, I looked across the street to see a woman, leaning out of her window, looking up at me and giving me the slow clap. I couldn’t help but laugh. 
On Tuesday we did team worship, and to try something new, we all made an hour long playlist, put in our headphones, turned up the volume, and sang. Six of us, singing six different songs, unable to hear ourselves and others meaning we were probably all out of key, but singing without embarrassment. We went up to the roof, by my tent, worshiped in our own ways to our own music, and as my playlist finished, I turned around and saw that some of the kids had come up to the roof to see what we were doing and had begun to sing as well. So I put my iPod on speaker and two of the girls started singing with me, and then we sang the English songs they knew. I know I am learning so much more from these kids than they are learning from me. Can you imagine hearing someone worship and without asking questions, without hesitation, just walking up and joining them? Or seeing someone in the word and stopping what you are doing to be in the Word with them? Because that’s what happened the next morning.
I was sitting in my tent doing my Bible study when one of the girls who had sang with me the night before came up to the roof to hang up clothes to dry and then pulled a Bible out of nowhere and came and sat with me. She asked me what I was reading, showed me what she was reading and what her favorite Psalm was, and then we dove into the Word together. How beautiful is the faith of a child! The innocence of their faith is breathtaking. Not in that they believe without question, but she sat their without considering any of the differences there may be between us, not concerned about any language barrier and with the humbleness to listen and learn from what I have been taught and the authority to also share her knowledge with me. Within 24 hours this 10 year old humbled me and showed me the areas in which I still have yet to grow.
So I say it again, how beautiful is the faith of a child!
