lil time away

In Mozambique for a couple days away...waiting on God, resting in God!

...God loves me, God loves me...let me never come to grips with this yet let me receive that transforming love!!

God is with me, God longs for me to spend time with him. Give me some Jesus this day! Working on pictures...

TRUE CAREPOINTS, YES!!

Look around, Look around

See what’s been done

See what is happening

Look around, Look and see

The beauty, the life

It’s come through me…

- God spoke this to me the other day, pretty cool

Lately, I’ve been able to see the beauty of the CarePoints. At Ngwane Park the other day I just sat back and watched the activity of the CarePoint for about 10 minutes. It was amazing, there was such electric joy filling the property. Certain CarePoints have truly become what we/God intended them to be…ok, they are on their way to become what God intended. The CarePoints are so much more than a building, a plate of food or a classroom. They are a community, they are places of love. The relationships, the joy, the knowledge of God is amazing. The other day I hung out with the youth at Makholweni and it was so cool to see the relationships they had amongst one another. It is so cool to see the true community developed at the CarePoints. There is a genuine love for life at the CarePoints which I’m not so sure is anywhere else in these communities.

Mark, Kay, Jessie, Shelly and I held a volleyball clinic the other day for the girls from Logoba and Zombodze. We had an awesome time together and the girls improved a lot in just two hours. I drove the Lagoba girls back to their CarePoint in a Kombi. The girls were singing the whole ride from Zombodze back to Lagoba. The boys were there to meet the girls and the whole group of them continued to sing, dance and be the embodiment of joy. It was amazing, as I left and drove back to the highway I watched the people walking toward the CarePoint. In their faces I saw this crazy expression on their faces, “what the heck is going on at that CarePoint, why are they so happy, what do they feed them there” It’s so cool to see the joy that only God can bring in these young people. God is establishing his presence at the CarePoints and it is transforming lives.

This spoke to me, this let me know that what we’re doing over here is more than just feeding mouths and continuing the cycle of poverty, death and hopeless. No, no our kids are infected…our kids are infected with amazing hope, that hope that is Jesus!

Sheep

So I was sitting in Pastor Ron's class the other day and we were talking about sheep. God tells us that we are his sheep and he is our Sheppard.

I was then thinking, what if we really grasp this. What if we truly understood that we are sheep.

I wrote down a couple of thoughts...sheep are dumb, sheep belong to a flock, sheep need guidance, sheep need protection, sheep are lost without a Sheppard...hmm, what if we grasp that we really do not have any idea, that we are lost without God, that we are dumb and need guidance. The world can tell us that we know everything, that we have it all together, that we have it all figured out yet God still tells us we are sheep. I think some of the key to believing this is living life. Our best intentions can never bring us true success, the kind that lasts and fills up the depth of your soul. We are sheep...in a way it kind of sucks, we're stupid but in a way it is amazing, it frees us to surrender to the loving hand of our Sheppard. It frees us of having to figure it all out, honestly it kind of frees of the burden that it all depends on us...it reduces life to this...yes I will follow or no I will not...yes I will trust or no I will not...I'm a sheep, I'm dumb and go my own way some times but in my heart I say yes I will follow