Author: Adventures
Here I Come Falling
Falling…Well jumping? I jumped. Off a super high cliff in Rio de Janeiro…Brazil that it is. I didn’t have a hang glider, but I still jumped, because I knew it would be ok. I could see the Jesus statue. I had jumped way above it. On my descent down to earth I was trying to figure out how I could survive, what I could grab onto. I knew I would though, because when there is a will there is a way…Then outside of this dream I heard a baby cry, and I didn’t know where I was. Then I woke up, and found myself napping on the floor of a pre-school in India. Sometimes in life we do...
Hope
From the moment this woman has entered the earth she has had to fight for her very life. Neglected and rejected she has grown to fend for herself. Working the day away, she suffers with the pain of never being of any worth. She’s looked down upon and abused by all who should have loved her. Never having a father, she knows no man of honor. By fourteen she’s handed off to her cousin who now is her husband. Abuse and neglect do not disappear, but increase. She’s living in fear. At the age of...
“Teacha! Teacha!”
Little brown heads poke around from the corners. With a smirk on their face they give a little wave and yell, “Teacha! Teacha!” Everywhere we go that chant is ringing. Children we know and children we’ve never seen sing this phrase over and over again until there is some kind of response from us back at them. Sometimes they will even trickle in from their hiding and form a crowd around and behind us. With joy and laughter rolling from their mouth, all they want to do is touch us, have us take a photo or laugh at us. Some even want...
Always Forever
Weary. Thats absolutely how I’ve felt this week. It’s been an extremely busy, chaotic week. And to some degree, every week is like that here. But factor in moving out of a ministry site and a medical clinic on top of our everyday ministry, this week was a lot. But God is good. And he’s been using this time to force me to rely on him fully. Because he is the only constant of this life. Whether it’s in India or America. Or anywhere and everywhere in between.
I’m learning to rely on him for everything. Which I promise is not nearly as easy as it sounds.
He is my...
I Wanna Hold YOUR Hand…
So many times in this life I feel as though God is not there, He’s not listening, He’s taken a vacation. He hase’nt….He never does.
As I was spending a lot of time with our stitching teacher here this week God reminded me over and over of His love and protection through her. That He never leaves me, that He’s always there. She had no idea that her actions towards me spoke so much to my soul…
As this women and I were walking around in the slum community everyday she would hold my hand. Since this was a little...
