Author: Adventures

God has been teaching me a lot about love the past couple weeks.  I find myself having a negative attitude about some situations or against some people who we have met.  I know this is not what I am supposed to be doing/thinking/acting…especially here on a mission’s trip.  But not at home either. I know God wants and commands me to love others unconditionally just as he loves us. I also have been thinking a lot about what I say and how I say it.  This is something that is hard for me but I woke up one day and God told me to try it.  He had been putting it on my...

I hear this song so often, but I rarely stop to think about it: how does Jesus really love me? I heard it put last week that “the chief way that Jesus loves us is in our weakness, our immaturity, our inability” and I can add my naïveté, my outright failure, my stubbornness, the list really goes on and on. His love means the most to me when I know that I really don’t deserve it, and those are the opportunities that He has to really show the depth of His love for us.   How then do I take John 13:34, when Jesus says, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love...

This post was meant to be uploaded last week.    Zephaniah 3:17 He will quiet you with his love.   Deuteronomy 8 Remember the Lord your God led you all the way, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart.  Whether or not causing you to hunger, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.  Observe the commands of the Lord you God, walking in his ways and revering him. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land-a land with streams and pools of water, with springs...

I am still absolutely loving Africa! Im having so much fun living in a hut with 14 other girls, taking bucket showers, hand washing all my clothes, being swarmed by dozens of kids and being woken up at 5 am by heards of cows! Well maybe not that last one, but everything else I really am liking and learning a lot from .J  The other day, my friend Jill and I went to the Mangwananei care point in Manzini. Before we even got there kids came running down the street as fast as they could and just jumped on us! We were seriously carrying about three kids at once, and even then more kids were...