Be here. Be now.
If you choose to love and to know that the call
Is to give all you are, to give love away.
Rise, people of love, Rise.
Give yourself away.
I honestly don’t know where to start! I am sitting in our house in Dwarka, surrounded by my teammates who are reading, journalling, and doing absolutely anything and everything to seek our Father’s heart. It has been such a beautiful, encouraging thing to be surrounded by people who have a genuine desire to have their hearts look like the heart of Christ. I have been blessed beyond measure! I feel like I’ve known some of them for years… and the reality is we met exactly two weeks ago 🙂 Praise God for his provision, timing, and perfect plan that I am seeing unfold each and every day.
Week one of being in this nation has been a ride, to say the least! We had a couple of days of rest, where we got accustomed to our house and fought jet lag. It definitely took a few days to feel normal again, but our first trip out of the house to the market made us feel like we were finally here. I still can’t believe it sometimes! I have grown to love the village we are staying at, and I actually know my way around a little bit, which is so nice. One of my favorite things to do is just walk down the streets in the village saying “Namaste” to anyone and everyone! I wish SO BADLY I had learned Hindi before I came here! I can’t tell you all how many times someone has said, “Indian?” to me and started rattling off a long stream of Hindi that I couldn’t understand in the least. Sometimes it’s even worse when I say one of the two sentences I know (“How are you”) because they assume I know way more than that. So other than the major language barrier, I love walking down the streets, seeing the same people doing the same things. These people are such hard workers! I have thought so many times of the work I do in a normal day, whether here or at home, and it doesn’t even compare! I find myself praying for physical strength for these people so often.
I have already been stretched in so many ways this week. My heart has been broken for the people and the kids I have met. This is our first real ministry week, and I am SO excited to see what’s ahead of us. I can’t wait to tell you all about the kids and the beautiful people we have met. I have seen Christ in the most unlikely places, and I’ve only been here a week! It has been my daily prayer that not my will, but His will be done. I want God to keep stripping away everything that’s of me, even when it hurts, and to make me look more like Christ. I want a heart like His, and I know He has brought me here to not only use me, but to change me. I will never be the same.
Great is Thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see. All I have needed Thy hand has provided. Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me.
~Rebecca
