Reality

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!