I head back to Honduras for the 2nd time tomorrow!
As I sit by our warm fireplace in my parents home, warm, safe, secure, comfortable; I realize how much I LOVE being home. I love my family. After being away for 3 1/2 months working with children who come from such unloving situations, my heart sings at the precious home in which I am apart.
I love Bellingham. I have known this for ever but every time I come home from being far off it rings clearer. The smells of the sea, the gulls at the parks, smoke from wood fireplaces. Freedom to sit in my car listening to the music I feel like listening too, or switching it cause I don't feel like that song today. Deciding to go buy a coffee drink cause I am cold and need something to wake me up.
All these things have become something I definitely don't take for granted anymore. Sad for me to realize it would take me traveling to Central America to discover these things but God opened my eyes to all that I have.
I praise God for another opportunity to journey back to Honduras. I am excited to see how God will use this 2nd time to teach me more about who He is and more about who I can become through Him.
Sometime I cannot believe that He chooses to use us. He doesn't have too. Were really not that smart, we fail daily, were stubborn sinners and do our own thing thinking we know best. And yet, He desires for us to be apart of His plan. He wants us to glorify Him here on earth. May we all continue to find joy serving Him wherever that may be. I love that that means in the grocery store, on the soccer field, in Honduras, Bellingham, in school, etc. He doensn't care where as long as we are living daily for Him and while doing that glorifying Him.
I am sitting here realizing how comfortable it is to be home, and I love it. But should we be comfortable? I miss the kids terribly which is why I feel lead to go back. But I know these next 4 months will be stepping out again in faith and uncomfortable. I know God is going to use this differently than the first time. I am going by myself. My challenge to myself is to rely on the Lord every moment. I know, I should already be doing this but when you have close friends around you during those hard moments, you turn to them first.
I am praying specifically for awesome conversations with these precious kids. Since we know one another really well already, we can skip the awkward "get to know each other" questions. Now for them to be able to come to me as a best friend, sister, mom, whatever and know I will be real with them. To be able to give godly council, in Spanish:)
