So Tuesday children for the 2 day camp arrived, God has a good sense of humor, I really really don’t like feet at all and so my responsibility when the children arrived was to measure their feet for new shoes.
Then there was face painting and we play games and songs and have a memory verse to remember and recite – In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth Genesis 1:1.
We got to go into group and get give a verse from genesis about creation, and we had 5 children and a teacher in each group and we had to act it out. And it was great even though there was a language barrier, we were able to recite a verse about God creating the livestock and animals and we acted like animals and made sounds and the girls I had, got so into it.
And over the 2 days there were 2 girls I really connected with I played soccer with them and tried to teach them how to kick and hand ball and AFL football. And I just felt so connected to them ever though again there was a language barrier, they just touched my heart and on the last day as we said bye I cried so much. I had an overwhelming mothering instinct that when I was hugging them that I really really didn’t want to let them go, I didn’t know or could imagine the hardships they were facing back home but I had to let them go.
And so after we said goodbye, I was an emotional wreck so I went and spent time with God and with my bible and I just pour out all my emotion and my heart to him. And realised it’s a total trust thing that they were in Gods arms before they were in mine and now they have left me they continue to be in his arms. And the love I feel for them is only a glimpse into the love God has for these precious children, he is their loving father.
And then I felt I really needed to read my bible and I feel like God gave me these passages
Psalm 121:1-3 I look up to the mountains – does my help come from there? My help comes from the Lord, who made the heavens and the earth. He will not let you stumble; the one who watches over you will not slumber. Indeed, he who watches over Israel never slumbers or sleeps. The Lord himself watches over you! The Lord stands beside you as your protective shade. The sun will not harm you by day nor the moon by night. The Lord keeps you from all harm and watches over your life. The Lord keeps watch over you as you come and go both now and forever
Lamentations 3:19-24 The thought of my suffering and homelessness in bitter beyond words. I will never forget this awful time, as I grieve over my loss. Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great in his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, “The LORD is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!”
And a couple of days later a couple of us were sitting with Adam and looking at his photos and his stories and he said something that really stuck me, he said, “after you meet people in the community and go back and read the word, the words in the bible become so real especially lamentations!” I was gob smacked he pretty explain what God had done in my heart and so when we were alone later I mentioned, “I’m glad you said that because I had that very experience the other day with a couple of verses in Lamentations” and he asked to look at the verse and said they were the same verse God had given him. And it gave me tingles and made me again feel like I am right where God wants me to be :D
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