I spent some time this afternoon praying just asking God to show me what it is I could say in 30 seconds when someone asks me about our trip. How do I sum up what happened in 2 weeks in a short answer to someone who wants to know how our trip was.
Well tonight during worship He revealed something to me. Something that has been in my heart since we left Africa - something I just didn't realize. In Africa, you took the focus OFF of me and put it onto YOU. It seems so simple. Something I've prayed about over & over and a lesson that you have been trying to teach me & will continue to teach me all the days of my life on earth. This life is NOT about me. Our focus and our eyes should be on you all the time. But they aren't. But while we were in Africa you did something in my heart, you shifted my focus and my mind. Tonight during worship instead of thinking about me and my life the whole time I was thinking about my friends I met at Korah and our friends in Uganda at Canaans. You shifted my focus, you changed my world.
My prayer is that my focus and my world will continue to be on YOU and not on me. Thank you Lord for that little glimpse tonight. I pray that you will continue to reveal what you did in my heart and life so I can tell of your good works.
**the pictures and stories are coming.....thank you for being patient!
I'm still not sure how to answer people when they ask "How was Africa," especially when it's asked as a prelude to a less important question like "when will that press release go out?" It's just not something that can be answered quickly like "how was your weekend?" One thing I love to talk about is the JOY those children have. Their 8, 10, 12, 16 year old lives have contained more hardship and grief than many of us can imagine, but their joy and their open hearts and their receptiveness to love are some of my favorite things to talk about because it was so surprising to me, and such a lesson to me as I process things in my own life that leave me wanting to complain. I love your response- so true and such an important factor of the trip!
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