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Letting Worries Go

Ok ok, it’s only the second week of these blogs and I’m already late I know. Things came up and I was lazy, I admit my fault.

A lot has happened this past week. The team was walking with some kids from the orphanage and passed by an older women planting rice in a field next to the road. Alligh (my leader) “suggested” that we ask to help her. The entire team ended up planting rice for an hour helping this woman with whom we didn’t know her language.

Teaching English has been both easier and harder than I expected. Easier as in they have a baseline of English they already know. Harder as in the baseline is different for each kid so finding something that they all could learn is difficult. Directions were the theme last week. The kids had to direct me to a part of the yard. Some of them understood… and did not. The ones who did not understand purposely made me walk in circles by saying “left, left, left” to much laughter.

I was also given the task to give a “talk” for Saturday devotions. My first time giving such a talk went well. What is worship was the question and we ended on dancing to worship so it turned into a mini dance class. Our host, who was translating, even danced with us. It was an awesome sight to see.

Going with the flow has been getting easier and easier as time progresses. After being so task-oriented in ministry, actually forming lasting relationships with people has been a time. However, I am seeing a whole new side of myself because I am more people focused. I see how people are feeling more. I see how people interact more be it actions or words. I see how God shines through people in the way they smile, talk, play, and interact with their environment. Tasks and to-do lists are important, but God did not make to-do lists, he made people in his own image, so they should be my first priority.

Through going with what comes I’ve had to learn to trust as well. Trusting my team for support when I need it. Trusting Vandy (our host) for keeping me safe when the team ventures beyond the Orphanage walls. Trusting God to teach me every day so that this year off is not a “waste of time”. Trusting myself to listen to the instincts that God has given me and use my skills to help the people around me.

So that is how the world is spinning for me at the moment. Learning a new way to live, a more in the moment kind of living then the fast-paced type I am used to. Trusting in God to take care of all my worries. Taking each day as it comes, I will continue to trust.

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