Can I learn this? Can I learn to SEE Him in this woman crouched beneath a ragged blanket, who can’t look me in the eyes? Can I learn to Love Him through this mommy huddled with her two children, begging for their daily survival? Can I learn to serve Him when He is dirty and…
How can it already be July?!? I sit and watch the rain come down, sideways…the clouds rumble. I love this, the washing. Washing away the smog. Washing away the dirt and filth. I want this too. Deep cleansing. I thought I came to give. I want to give…I am seeing that mostly I am a…
I am sitting outside…the air is cool and a bit fresher from our afternoon rain. The children are yelling and playing nearby…the birds are happy in the trees…All of Mine are resting. Today was a day of learning, absorbing…..my first day of Amharic…the first day my ears heard and understood some of this new language…
18 June 2012 The morning dawns…the sky is filled with haze, sounds of chanting prayers rising against a city still sleeping. The birds sing to the Creator, the song I love to hear. We walk out of our protected home, the dirt streets streamed with garbage, waste. The children flock around us, many begging…many mocking….
His Grace amazed me today. For 2 days, sweet sisters in Christ came and scrubbed and laughed and weeded and shared their lives with me…it was a precious gift. Today, my house was bursting….literally bursting with women and even more children!! I kept quietly asking, “Lord, WHO are these servants? ” I only knew 2…
