Hello!!!
Creation, specifically of humanity, is what has been my focus and a constant theme throughout this trip.
It started at training camp, we had some alone time to decompress all that we have been learning and I decided to write. Something that a lot of people don’t know about me is that I really really love creative writing. I was writing a vignette style account of the creation of humanity.
I thought a lot about how humanity itself is such an overlooked example of God’s hand and his hope for us. It’s almost obvious, yet abstract. I think that’s why it’s so overlooked.
We are the superior species because we are giving the CAPACITY and CAPABILITY for more. When I was writing the vignette, I described a bird deserting her babies and nest because another animal touched it and therefore in the mother’s eyes, it’s ‘contaminated’. The mother bird doesn’t have the CAPABILITY for feelings of love or discernment or abandonment- because she doesn’t have the CAPACITY for it.
God created humans with the CAPACITY for emotions and feelings, for good, for bad, and for mimicking Him. We are created in his image, so we are CAPABLE of these things, unlike the bird. It’s up to us if we fill ourselves to our capacity level with good.
Thinking about this blows my mind! I love when something simple is discovered because it helps me feel clear and peaceful. These simple discoveries are what stick with me throughout life- they become firm beliefs for me.
Ratchaburi juvenile detention center: a place full of girls full of capacity and capability.
I’ve always had juvenile centers on my heart ever since visiting them with a campus ministry my freshman year. I was excited and expectant and eager to experience one in Thailand. A team member shared about value and how past events do not define us. When asked if they feel less worthy or valuable because of their previous actions, almost all girls at the center raised their hand ‘yes’.
No no no no. This broke my heart. They have so much capacity because they are created in God’s beautiful image. They are capable of a full life, with love and redemption.
I’m not totally sure of the taboo of a criminal record in Thailand, but despite cultural norm, I pray these girls know their personal value. That they know they are capable of so much good- because they have been created with the capacity for it.
I call anyone reading this to not take their capacity lightly. Fill it up with what Jesus filled his with- because we are capable of it.
