Adventures – Page 8

To The Future

This is to the future. To those who feel called to serve. To those who don’t know what they might get into, but who are willing to get into it anyway. To those who are ready to go: Don’t go to escape what’s happening at home. Come and find that the only resting place that will truly be “home” is within God’s hands. Don’t go to take pictures with cute kids. Come to leave a piece of your heart with a blind fifty year old mother at the local market. Don’t go and look upon the culture as foreign. Come and embrace everything as beautiful, because...

Shoot for the moon and land among the stars

One of my favorite things here in Swazi has been when my teammates and I lay outside our hut to stargaze and sing worship. First off, there is nothing like the African night sky. Never in my life have I seen so many stars and such a high resolution of stars at that. Might I add you can see the MILKY WAY here. At least we think it’s the Milky Way… The only words I can think to describe it are WOW and majestic. What an awesome experience to gaze at God’s breathtaking artwork while worshiping Him. One night in the middle of our stargazing worship, suddenly it dawned on me: a...

Africa Is…

July 16, 2014
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Africa is showering in a bucket. Africa is washing our clothes by hand. Africa is using the bathroom outside. Africa is riding in a crowded public bus everywhere we go. Africa is living with 21 other people in a tiny house. Africa is waking up to roosters and chickens at the crack of dawn. Africa is seeing dying children at the hospital and knowing there is nothing you can do but pray for them. And guess what, it’s HARD. But Africa is also worshiping around a campfire with our Siswati friends. Africa is befriending the orphans who live near our homestead and playing with them each...

The Germ-a-phobic in Me wants to Love Like Christ.

If I’m being honest, I don’t love the snotty noses, the germ covered hands that double as toilet paper, the clothes that are stained with who knows what, or the bare bum that sits on my lap. If I’m being honest, I’ve convinced a child who peed their pants to play soccer instead of sit on my lap. There have been times where I’ve (regretfully) dodged physical contact with children that would be “too messy” or “too germy.” These...

The Wonder from My Ever-Wandering Mind

July 13, 2014
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I often sit and wonder, wonder about anything that pops into my ever-wandering mind. Winter here is very fickle. One day it’s sunny and I wish with every ounce in me that I could wear shorts. Then one day it’ll be gray, cloudy, with a few sprinkles of rain and I dream of curling up with some hot chocolate. I find that these gray days are the best to reflect upon those contradicting hot ones. I left behind my queen-sized mattress, my never-ending food options, having people be able to communicate with me whenever and the freedom to do whatever I wanted to do for a day. Now I...

Faulty Lighting

July 12, 2014
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I sit here writing this post in the dark because our home’s electricity is faulty and of course I’m reading about the light of the world! God’s sense of timing and humor is perfect because faulty lighting is a great example of what a lot of Christians are guilty of doing, including myself. In Matthew 5:13-16, God calls us to be the salt and light of the earth. It seems like a silly and easy thing to do, but I find it easier to hide my faith and not stretch my faith. This trip has been convicting me so much because it is so easy to...

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