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Hard to Love

August 1, 2013
Adventures
Closing Thoughts

As I was eating my breakfast this morning, I reflected on three words. Hard to love. When I walked to Victory Home for the first time, all of my teammates had already been paired with children and I heard stories about their adoration for these beautiful children. When I told our contact I wasn’t paired with a child, she was surprised. She looked in the other room and said “I need someone with extreme patience. Are you up for it?” I came to India to serve. In any way possible. So I said, “yes”. When I walked up to the room, I...

The Greatest of These is Love

If you were to ask me to summarize my past 2 months in one word, that word would be LOVE. God has taught me so much about His love in these past 8 weeks. At training camp, He reminded me how great the love He has for me is and showered me continually with that love. In our time on the field, He revealed to me even greater depths of His love by letting me experience that same love from the other side. By loving others through me with His love. That incredible, unconditional, mind blowing, gut wrenching love that He loves me with. Now, in these first few days home, He’s...

New Seasons and It’s (More Than) Okay

It's here. We're here. Leaving India, leaving this season. A time which seemed impossibly ahead of me, always in my future, has finally come to be the present. Soon, it will be the past. This will be behind me. I will know how this went, I'll remember my heart, I'll feel the nostalgia. As for this moment, though, I'm in the gap, and it seems like a strange dream. This past week, the impossible time came to say our goodbyes to India, and the kids we've grown to love so dearly. I don't think there are any words to describe the scene of departure, all of the...

I love India! (:

From the drizzle of rain to the ecstatic, deep laughter of a small Indian girl to the spicy curry– I LOVE India. I am so blessed to have been here as God has allowed to me to do so many good deeds for his glory AND to have learned so many things. When people said I would never be the same after India I didn't think it could be that life changing but God has actually shown me a lot as I have sought Him desperately on this trip and had opportunity to do good deeds everyday. I know how to love people better now. So here's the work we got to do: 1. We got...

Plucked

Today is Wednesday, June 24 in Hyderabad. It is the last day of debrief and I am coming to terms with the fact that this summer is almost over. It seems like yesterday that I was loading up my pack while Sampson (my dog) kept dragging things out and back into my room. During debrief, I was asked the question, "Do I accept that the next season of my life may not look the same as this season?" Well, yeah. I hadn't even thought of that yet but it seemed like an obvious question to me. Obviously I wasn't going to be living in India with 21 girls next semester. I'll...

Lessons from the CP room (posted a week late)

Meant to post this last week, but ran out of Internet time! Regardless, here are some more words of love from India. Here's the scene: You're in India. Sweat is everywhere, drenching your clothes and beading off your brow. Mosquitos find their way to all exposed parts of your body, which typically only consist of arms, feet, neck, and face. Gnats swarm and flies gather. The sun is bright and warm and toasty. Yet all of all of these ingredients are necessary and appreciated, because this is what it is to live in India, to be a part of it all. You come to love the sweat and the bites...

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