Reality is we have been in Guatemala for almost 2
months. The routines have been established,
if you can do that with kids. We rise
early with the noise of the team, do breakfast with morning coffee. Then we send the team off, usually with one
or two kids on the days adventure. The
rest of the tribe stays behind to complete tasks and play games or hold
babies. Our hours pass at the same rate
as they always have; yet now I feel an eternal pull. What we are doing with Christ will change
peoples eternity if they allow the Holy Spirit domain in their life. Why could I so easily push that tug aside at ‘home?”
Reality is we are here to stay. Most days one of us is still sorting through
that reality. Now that all of the
newness has faded and the comments of ‘what are you doing?” have stopped. We are faced with a certainty that we are
where God has called us, yet we desire to be ‘home’ with family and
friends. Having fun and making memories,
as tradition would have it. BUT, we know
that our blessings will continue at our new calling. We ask that you pray for peace and a
continued assurance.
Reality is that at the end of the day we desire one thing:
At the end of the day I wanna hear people say
My heart looks like Your heart, my heart looks like Your
heart
When the world looks at me, let them agree
That my heart looks like Your heart, my heart looks like Your
heart
Thank you Chris Tomlin for putting it so simply.
I get to listen to people’s heartbeat, rate, and rhythm almost on a daily basis, yet I don’t want my heart to sound good, I want my heart to look like God’s heart. The only way that I can ‘figure’ out how to accomplish that is to allow the Holy Spirit to have reign in my life.
Another song we sing here often puts it this way
“Sometime He calms the storm and other times He calms His
child.”
My prayer is that today HE will calm HIS child and that I
will work with Christ so that others will say my heart looks like HIS!
