This past week has been insanity. After I said goodbye to my job and residents
at Joy Givers Senior Home, I thought I would have a quiet week to prepare for
my journey to Mozambique. Well, let me
tell you; this past week has been everything but quiet. However, God has definitely used each and
every moment of this week to prepare me for my journey and to shape my heart to
allow me to most effectively love and receive love.
Now, I am sitting at Dulles International Airport awaiting
my flight across the Atlantic to my beloved continent of Africa. I am exhausted from a week of sleepless
nights, and my heart hurts for the burdens and sufferings of those whom I have
loved so dearly but now have to step away from.
Yet, I know that the exhaustion has brought me to the end of my
rope. God is all I have to fall back
onto, and there is no place that I’d rather be than in His arms. Furthermore, the tears that I fight back
remind me that I have truly loved. While
my love fails, I pray that my expressions of love point back to the unfailing
love of God. I find peace in knowing
that love is unending, inevitable, absolute, and independent of me. God is love, and through my brokenness
limitless love is poured.
It dawned on me this week that love is not based on
perfection. Love is about embracing the
image of God in each and every individual despite their sins, flaws, and
mistakes. Love is about hope, and I am
all about hope in a world that reeks with hopelessness. I cannot promote a religion of perfection
when I am so imperfect. I believe that
is hypocrisy. Rather, I get to dance in
the freedom of redemption. Jesus was and
is perfection, who laid Himself down to meet me in my dirt and brokenness. He came to constantly fill me with love. I know He’s there; I feel Him. His love is extravagant. I only hope that as I encounter people, I get
close enough for His love to spill out and splash over them.
Life is a treasure hunt, and the treasure is the person next to me... I found a treasure during my layover. Yay, for new friends!  |
| Treasure: Alyssa from Switzerland |
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