It’s not my problem
While making my way from country to country in the beginning of September, my smallness was truly realized. I had never before left my home country but here I am on unfamiliar soil. I don’t really know how I got here. All I know is that what God put on my heart in the summer of 2012 is happening right now. I’m spending three months serving in a capacity that not many people will have in their entire life. And here, in this place, I see and hear of problem after problem after problem. Some days I feel like my heart can’t take anymore. But then, I am reminded that I am not here to solve every problem I come across. Even Christ didn’t do that when He was on earth.
“Feed my sheep,”
He said. Not solve the worlds problems in a day or week or 3 short months. I can’t find homes for the 38 abandoned children in the orphanage. I may not even be able to help the boy who easily gets frusterated with math homework unless he helps himself. And I can’t feed/clothe/bathe an entire gypsy village. But I can love them.
I can hold the hands of the little boys and girls that were left because their parents didn’t want them. I can spend my afternoons tutoring children that come from broken families. I can love the gypsys by teaching english and playing games with the children whose hands are black from shelling walnuts allday.
All I am here to do is show them that because Christ loved them, I love them too.
To start: thank you to everyone who has taken steps with me along the way. For those of you who have prayed for me and who have spoken the tender heart of the king back to me, thank you. To those who have cheered me on. If you’ve encouraged & urged me onward in this journey, thank you. To my church family for the prayers of sending me off and faithfully continuing whispers to the King on my behalf. To the friends who have listened with grace and supported without a second thought, thank you. Thank you to my family for letting me go and my dad who went halfway across the world just to drop me off. For Yahweh’s provision, promise, and plan for my life.
and to you reading this now, thank you.
Greater than I 