Today is one of those days I wish I was waking up and getting ready to walk the mile to church; while on the way staring up at the sky waiting and praying I'll make it there before the downpour of true African rain falls on me.
Today I miss those kids running up to me grabbing my hand with who knows what kind of goo on it and begging for 'and birr' or 'and dabo'.
I miss looking into those little precious eyes and thinking to myself, "do you know how wonderfully made you are and how much the Lord and King of the universe looks down on you and how much his heart leaps for joy in just how beautiful and perfect you are."
I don't think there will ever be a day that I don't miss it.
Thursday morning I found myself sitting on the floor with my coffee in hand and crying to the Today's show 2012 recap. Tears ran down my face as I watched the turmoil and pain that our country and world has had to endure this year. I find myself thinking about this upcoming "fiscal cliff" and the unsettling effect it has on us all. I watched the faces and tears of all those parents who lost their children and the effects of a us embassy be bombed beyond recognition and all the lies and scandals behind it revealed. I watched the country of Syria be divided and live with the day to day sounds of guns and watch people they know be murdered.
As I think back to my time in Ethiopia and now being back in the states my heart is so heavily burdened thinking about how much of this world really doesn't understand just how much they are loved and how no matter what happens, how many regulations we decide to put in to place in our schools, gun control laws we pass, starving third world countries we have or cures we try to find; we have a Lord who is over it all. Who, in this broken world, is the only thing in tact and outside of everything fallen. He reigns on high and simply asks that we live in peace, faith and understanding that he loved us so much he sent his only son and that one day all this turmoil and pain will be no more.
Today I miss those kids running up to me grabbing my hand with who knows what kind of goo on it and begging for 'and birr' or 'and dabo'.
I miss looking into those little precious eyes and thinking to myself, "do you know how wonderfully made you are and how much the Lord and King of the universe looks down on you and how much his heart leaps for joy in just how beautiful and perfect you are."
I don't think there will ever be a day that I don't miss it.
Thursday morning I found myself sitting on the floor with my coffee in hand and crying to the Today's show 2012 recap. Tears ran down my face as I watched the turmoil and pain that our country and world has had to endure this year. I find myself thinking about this upcoming "fiscal cliff" and the unsettling effect it has on us all. I watched the faces and tears of all those parents who lost their children and the effects of a us embassy be bombed beyond recognition and all the lies and scandals behind it revealed. I watched the country of Syria be divided and live with the day to day sounds of guns and watch people they know be murdered.
As I think back to my time in Ethiopia and now being back in the states my heart is so heavily burdened thinking about how much of this world really doesn't understand just how much they are loved and how no matter what happens, how many regulations we decide to put in to place in our schools, gun control laws we pass, starving third world countries we have or cures we try to find; we have a Lord who is over it all. Who, in this broken world, is the only thing in tact and outside of everything fallen. He reigns on high and simply asks that we live in peace, faith and understanding that he loved us so much he sent his only son and that one day all this turmoil and pain will be no more.
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