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Enough For Me

2 weeks from today, my team and I will be boarding a plane back to America. I can't help but wonder where the past 3 and a half months have gone. Of course, all the different questions people are going to ask me are running through my mind. "How was your trip?" "What all did you do?" "What did you learn?" All valid questions, I might add. But I can't help but wonder how I'm suppose to summerize the past 4 months into a couple sentences. 

As I was doing my quiet time this morning, I was really struggling with how I was going to answer all these questions. I haven't witnessed any miracles and I can't say God has used me to help bring someone to salvation. All I can say to people comes down to one simple sentence: "I almost non-stop played with kids." How am I supposed to go back and tell all my supporters that all I did was round the clock play with kids? But then I came across a verse.

James 1:27 "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress…"
 
Everyday I got to work with 29 girls who have lost their parents in tragic accidents, or been abused either sexually or physcally. I got to lead them in small groups, go to their volleyball and basketball games, watch movies and have sleepovers, help them with homework I don't even remember how to do, and put them to bed by praying and even sometimes singing over them.

I got to work at the Children's home where I got to play with the kids in the nursery, shower them, feed them and put them to bed. I could go downstairs with the older kids and push kids on the swings, have girls do my hair, watch our boys play their boys in basketball. I was also here to see a girl and a boy get adopted to the states with a real family.

Or I could go into the streets outside our gate and play with the street children. I could play london bridge, ring around the rosie, duck duck goose, throw children in the air until my arms hurt and then some.

All that doesn't include the food and clothes my team got to help give out. So maybe I didn't get to witness a miracle or help someone know Jesus like I expected. But I learned what it's like to really live like Jesus. To love until it doesn't seem like I can love anymore. To serve and to love the least of thee. Maybe it won't be enough for some people, but it sure is enough for me.

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