What is God Calling Me to do? '

That’s a great question.  What is God calling me to do with my life?  Do we ever really know the answer to that right of the bat or does it often take a serious of wrong turns and sometimes right turns, before things become clearer.  Or is it always in hindsight?  

I know I come here and every time I do, I know in my heart that this is the work I’m meant to do.  How far I go with this calling, I’m not sure. Is meant to be just this or is meant to go deeper than I can possibly imagine.  I don’t know. I just keep following the path I’m on hoping that I am doing the right thing.  My faith and journey in Christ has grown so much and my heart is so full that I don’t know how it could possibly grow more. I love this work.  It makes me whole.  It brings me closer to God.  

Today we continued with our home visits and saw so much need in the community.  It is the love and strength that I gain through faith that keeps me going during these visits.  It is always a lot to process.  You start out excited and glad that we can do this and thrilled to be able to bring 30 families food.  Then you are humbled and realize you are not the one to take the credit for this, It’s all God’s work and you are his servant in this world.  But it often leaves me with more questions and I want to do more.  It feels strange to give to 30 families when there are so many more that need our help.  But we talked about this a lot in devotion tonight and we talked about how we can help when we feel helpless.  I don’t know that anyone has the answers really, but I do believe in the power of prayer and know that God listens to all our prayers.  He knows what is in our hearts.  He knows his people and he will take care of them.  He knows my questions better than I do.  

Today and yesterday we saw a lot of pregnant teenage girls, more than I have ever seen before.  I think about their futures and what it looks like for them and ponder the things that we can do to help break the cycle.  If thats what we are meant to do.  

The construction mission keeps going with so much progress being made!  We have the beginnings of the skeleton of the walls.  It’s so exciting to see the progress and know that this building is going to be a wonderful place of refuge for our children of Tocoa.  I get excited when I think about the future of this space with the special needs school, Thomas and Irma and the feeding center all being connected like this.  I imagine and wonderful place the children can play safely and a future bright for them.  

Yes, I am definitely being called to a place and I am in the place I am called, but where I go with that, I am yet to see.  I’m at peace with it and I know that whatever happens, if its God’s will, it is good.  

Tomorrow we end our week cooking a meal for the community.  The guys on the team are cooking burgers and we are expecting 80-100 people in the community to attend.  Such a blessing, I hope they come!  I’m looking forward to talking with the local community more and being in fellowship with them.  

It’s been a wonderful week.  More than I could have imagined.   I can’t believe its Friday already tomorrow.  

Blessings! 

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Home visit 

4 year old girl sitting with a super sharp knife peeling an apple.  Her knife skills were pretty good. 

Making tortillas

Nixon’s brothers and cousins playing with the new soccer ball we brought them

Another home visit. 



Rob helping make concrete for the foundation 

The rebar wall supports




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