Sunday...

Look to me continually for help, comfort and companionship. Because I am always by your side, the briefest glance can connect you with Me. When you look to Me for help, it flows freely from My Presence. This recognition of your need for Me, in small matters as well as large ones, keeps you spiritually alive. When you need comfort, I love to enfold you in My arms. My constant companionship is the summit of salvation blessings. No matter what losses you experience in your life, no one can take away this glorious gift” (from Jesus Calling by Sarah Young).

“I sought the Lord and he answered me, he delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant” (Psalm 34:4-5).

What a comfort it is to know that God is with us always…when times are good and when times are difficult. Right now, I am feeling a little bit of both. I love teaching and being at school, but fear that I will be so caught up in working that I will forget where I am and where he has brought me…back to Africa. The image of being “enfolded” in his arms is also huge. I have met wonderful people and am making new friends here at Heritage…as well as catching up with old ones, but I still know that I am away from home and loved ones, which can become very discouraging if I let it. That is one thing I have been praying for…that I would not fall into discouragement, but fulfill the purposes God has for me while I am here. And I am without a doubt that teaching is one of them.

I have this week off of school, which will be so good for planning and trying to get ahead in work. But I also want to really experience this culture that is all around me. Tomorrow I have an opportunity to go work in a babies’ home, so please pray that the opportunity remains and I am able to go. I have already been told by Adam (and other people) that I am not allowed to bring one home. :) Not this time around anyway…I am looking forward to helping out where I can and just loving on the precious children. Also, because of certain circumstances that are quite sad, I do not think I will be going back to Mama Mary’s (the orphanage I worked at last time). Details are vague, but please be in prayer for her and all the children she has cared for.

I will try to keep the updates coming…I miss you all and hope you are doing well, all the way across the ocean. :)

“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith” (Galatians 6:9-10).