Break my heart for what breaks Yours.
For most of my life, I’ve struggled with pride. I’ve struggled with wanting glorification from the Lord and only the Lord, not those around me. So, in hopes to learn to humility, I began to pray this prayer at the beginning of 2018: Break my heart for what breaks Yours. I prayed that God would give me a heart like His: one for His people, one that loves without condition, one that breaks for sin and pain…then Mercy High School comes along. I’ve blogged about it a few times, but I still am failing to find the words to explain what those children meant to me. The best way I can explain them is as beacons of light in a dark, dark place. That sounds cliche, but imagine living in a village that the devil preys on, with a mud home, clothes torn and decades old, only enough food for a few meals a week, and on top of that, having to find the strength to get to school by 6 am, walking an hour to (sometimes in the rain) and from. Yet, through all of that, they still smiled and danced and sang and drove us crazy. To know all of them was to truly love all of them…even when they wrote test answers on their arms or screamed across the room at each other for an entire class period straight. Though those are just small things, I have an understanding of unconditional love that I never have had before. Though it hurt when they disobeyed or weren’t treating each other with any type of respect, I loved them still with a love that I didn’t know I had in me (parents are probably thinking I’m preaching to the choir). He broke my heart for what breaks His daily, but He also repaired it with what repairs His daily: the beautiful innocence and humility of His children.
I prayed a prayer that many didn’t ask for, but took on as their own burden – and it became an anthem. A HUGE thank you again to all who donated, none of this could’ve been done without you. Know that your money is currently feeding the 400 students at Mercy High School in Lilongwe, Malawi.
https://www.gofundme.com/let039s-end-hungry-season
