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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Send Me Out

This past weekend I went on a wonderful adventure, to visit some very loved "family" in Hermosillo, Mexico.  I have been down to Casa Esperanza Para Ninos, 5 times now and ever time I go down I fall even more in love with the kids. (For those of you that haven't been following my blog, Casa Epseranza Para Ninos is an orphanage in Hermosillo, Mexico that my church works with.) I love the culture, the people, the language, it just has captured my heart!

I spent 3 days down there, and it just wasn't enough time for me.  I've been back for 4 days and I am already longing to go back.  But alas I'm not sure when I will get to go back. (I'll expand a little more on that in a different post.) So I soaked up all the snuggles, hugs, and smiles that I could while I was down there.  



 While we were down in Hermosillo, we helped finish up the new house that has been built.  That house once it's finished will be able to house 15 more orphans.  How cool is that?  We put on door handles, we swept, and we helped put up bird board.  One of the many reasons why I enjoy going down to Mexico, is that I always learn something new.  This passed weekend when we went down I learned how to install door hardware.  Yes, that seems like a small and silly task, but now it's just another skill that I've acquired.  

One of the nights we all gathered around a huge bonfire, side by side, in Spanish as well as English and worshiped.  We worshiped the same God, in our own languages and we even worshiped in each others languages.  That is one of my favorite times.  I think it's absolutely amazing that although we can't communicate through words because of the language barrier, we can all worship the same God, and give thanks for those times when we get to see a little more of His heart.



We spent our Saturday at the beach with the Casa kids.  We spent hours swimming, eating delicious Pollo (Chicken) and just having a beautiful time.  I must say that every time I go to Mexico, and we go to the beach, the song "How He Loves" always gets stuck in my head.  I stand and I look around me, I see the kids, and massive ocean and I just think of how God's grace is like an ocean, I think about how much I am loved by a God that is too big to describe. I start to realize just how small I am, how compared to the size of the oceans, or the different countries, or even to the universe, I am a small speck.  A small speck, that the creator of the earth chooses to care about, and love so much that He sent his son to be beaten, and hated, given a crown of thorns, and ultimately killed so that  could have my sins washed away.  So that I could live and have opportunities like Mexico, so that I could love these kids just like God loves me.  I am awestruck at God's love for little old me.



Every time I go to Mexico I come back with a new understanding of God's love, and He always allows me to see just a little more of His heart.  For that I am thankful, I'm just so thankful that I have this understanding of God's love (Although I don't fully understand, because His sacrifice was so great.) that helps me love and serve others as He did.  His son came and served us, so that we had an example of how we should serve others.  Even though I'm not always the best at it, I want nothing more in life then to be directly in the middle of God's will for my life, even if it means being uncomfortable.  So here I AM send ME.



Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Happy Day!

Today is a good day. 

For many reasons, but mainly for a very wonderful reason. 

My Angel Tree Baby?  

Miss Lark?  

She has a....

FAMILY!!!!  

Yes, a family!!  

I'm so overjoyed, and excited for her to be rescued! 

As for me and Angel Tree?  

Well I have requested a new Angel Tree child!  

I will announce the child, when it's official! :)