First Entry...in Guate

Wednesday, 16 Abril 2009

So, I have the most amazing day...I get to spend a full hour just talking and hearing from Our Dad...then language school goes well (lots of homework for tonight but my teacher was encouraged by the amount of verbs that I am actually retaining...THANK YOU DAD! Because we all know that my OLD memory...frankly, sucks!!) Of course after school, I am greeted by 20ish adorable kids who just want to slobber and love all over me...I LOVE IT! Don't understand one word they say except Otro Vez (again) each and everytime I pick them up and throw them or tickle them or hug them...that is all I hear! But it is so adorable and I just talk to Dad about all of their salvations...that they too will one day know the Creator of the Universe intimately and fall deeply in love with Him!! And after lunch...cleaning up and what not after 20 some odd children...I head to the internet cafe to send some emails...IT WAS FREAKIN SLOW today...and then head to the park here in San Juan. I find a bench...overlooking Antigua and all the mountains that surround Guate and not to mention the very active and unpredictable Volcano Fuerte that likes to just do whatever...whenever...and all I can think is...seriously, Dad...you created all of this just for me and you created this time just the two of us! I mean, where in the world can you find someone that will not only stop whatever He is doing...just to spend time with you...but bless you with the most amazing view of His Might and the most perfect temperature with the sun beating down on you and the wind slightly blowing...really, Dad...why in the world do You do this kind of stuff for me??!?! And not to mention that He is doing the exact same thing for you guys as well...and I cant wait to hear all about it!!!

So, we sit for a couple of hours or so...just talking...just listening...just reading...just journaling my thoughts...thoughts of How Awesome He is...thoughts of How grateful I am to be doing what He has called me to do...how incredible it is to hear His voice...through His Word...through His creation...through friends and family! ...what a sweet time we had today! It was PERFECT!! Sitting on a bench...with the I AM!!

Then back to my house for some more playing with kids...did I mention that I love kids...and He was so right to put me here. They speak on my level (when they talk slowly and not that 2-4 year old gibberish that no one can understand) and they just love to be loved! And I ask Him that my actions with these kids will speak loudly to my family here and the other teachers in the home...that they may only see Him in me! And so back to my room for some more studying...I have a big test tomorrow over so much vocabulary...YUCK!! and it is all oral...we are ONLY going to talk for 4 hours tom...my brain is going to kill me!!

But I just started talking yet again to Dad...I find myself doing  alot of there here and I am so thankful that I can do that...and so I open up His Word and keep reading in Exo...and you know more plagues are happening...and Pharoah still doesnt give a flip...but then He says that He is doing all of this..."so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth!! For by now I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth. But I have raised you up for this very purpose...that I might show You my power and that My Name might be proclaimed in ALL THE EARTH!!" What...WOW...I am speechless...I can barely finish reading. For He is right, there is NO ONE like Him in all the earth...and He for some weird reason loves me and decided not to wipe me off the face of the earth...and He pursues me...and chose me for this very purpose...that He might show His power through me and that HIS NAME WILL BE PROCLAIMED IN ALL THE EARTH!! Are you freakin kidding me...this is why we are here...this is what He wants for us...and He says it to us in the middle of a bunch of plagues...go figure!!