Earlier this week we were asked to create a video based on the book of Job, we had 1 day to do it and only 10mins long. Here's what my group did :)
This blog started as "my life in missions" but has become what inspires me, my thoughts through lifes ups and downs, & what is God teaching me.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Hearing the beauty around us.
During the first quarter of this school, I've been blessed to work in the fields with the shepherdess on base, I'm not going to lie, its been super hard and most of the time I can't even image I'm working with sheep... I dislike animal, especially the farm kind.
But I'm not writing about sheep, rather the lady whom I work with, she was born deaf in both her ears, not too long ago she was able to have some sort of surgery and had hearing out of one ear only. As of yesterday, she was able to hear out of BOTH years.
I wish everyone could have seen her reaction to being able to hear for the first time!
She has truly blessed my heart and has brought me back to a place of remembering how privileged i am to be able to hear.
Earlier in class we were challenged to find God in nature, i went over to a sidewalk and sat half way up, trying to find something. But i remembered Thema's amazement with sound, and not too long after i began to realize how many birds there were around me, i didn't see them all but i could hear them. It soon became a game between God and I to try guess where the birds were, and how many different kinds their were, and try to guess how close or far they were away from me.
I began to wonder, if it takes me being purposeful in hearing what is around me daily, how much do I miss what God is trying to say to me on a daily bases? This was just one exercise to learn how to find God in the small things, but it has really challenged me and made me curious how much I miss him speak to me day-to-day.
Seeing Thema's reaction of being able to hear out of two ears for the first time was so powerful to me! Seeing the wonder on her face when she could hear different sounds really showed me how God created us to hear, not only so we can have communication with other but to bless us in hearing the beauty in what God has created.
But I'm not writing about sheep, rather the lady whom I work with, she was born deaf in both her ears, not too long ago she was able to have some sort of surgery and had hearing out of one ear only. As of yesterday, she was able to hear out of BOTH years.
I wish everyone could have seen her reaction to being able to hear for the first time!
She has truly blessed my heart and has brought me back to a place of remembering how privileged i am to be able to hear.
Earlier in class we were challenged to find God in nature, i went over to a sidewalk and sat half way up, trying to find something. But i remembered Thema's amazement with sound, and not too long after i began to realize how many birds there were around me, i didn't see them all but i could hear them. It soon became a game between God and I to try guess where the birds were, and how many different kinds their were, and try to guess how close or far they were away from me.
I began to wonder, if it takes me being purposeful in hearing what is around me daily, how much do I miss what God is trying to say to me on a daily bases? This was just one exercise to learn how to find God in the small things, but it has really challenged me and made me curious how much I miss him speak to me day-to-day.
Seeing Thema's reaction of being able to hear out of two ears for the first time was so powerful to me! Seeing the wonder on her face when she could hear different sounds really showed me how God created us to hear, not only so we can have communication with other but to bless us in hearing the beauty in what God has created.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Uncle John
I'm finally in Hawaii going to school at University of The Nations and loving it :)
My classes have already taught me so much when it comes to biblical history and i've started looking at the bible with whole new eyes! I didn't really want to write about that though, I haven't been feeling inspired to write or even find the time to write. When I say I have homework ALL the time I really mean it!
Today was our first full day off, went to the beach, played some volleyball and did some shopping but the best part of my night was meeting "Uncle John".
I've grown up around alcholics pretty well my whole life and enough stuff has happened to make me afraid of anyone who is drunk or drinking.
I went down to the pier with my really good friend Jen tonight and we were just sitting on the wall looking out over the ocean when some shirtless drunk Hawaiian guy somes over and starts talking to us and introduces himself as "Uncle John". Of course me being afraid of drunks and always been told that you can't trust someone when they are drinking, I'm ready to get out of there and just find a way out of the situation. (of course I don't want to appear rude though, so i'm unsure of what to do!)
Anyways, he climbs up on the wall with us and tells us how nice we are and he has some sons, that we'd make pretty good daughter-in-laws, and how his ex wife is some Indian from Washington and not the greatest person, and starts singing some James Brown...
My brainn didn't really know how to comprehend this...
But I stayed in listened to him, the best part came when he started telling us how he came to know Jesus in jail, and was quotting scripture after scripture....
I felt God whisper "My people aren't perfect but I still love them" and it was through Uncle John tonight that I'm reminded of how good God is; that he could save a jail birl, who still has his faults but speaks the word of God Boldly, to refresh a Christian girl who is going to school for Biblical Studies and give her back a passion to keep pressing into Gods Character.
And even a glimps of the redemption God is capable of.
My classes have already taught me so much when it comes to biblical history and i've started looking at the bible with whole new eyes! I didn't really want to write about that though, I haven't been feeling inspired to write or even find the time to write. When I say I have homework ALL the time I really mean it!
Today was our first full day off, went to the beach, played some volleyball and did some shopping but the best part of my night was meeting "Uncle John".
I've grown up around alcholics pretty well my whole life and enough stuff has happened to make me afraid of anyone who is drunk or drinking.
I went down to the pier with my really good friend Jen tonight and we were just sitting on the wall looking out over the ocean when some shirtless drunk Hawaiian guy somes over and starts talking to us and introduces himself as "Uncle John". Of course me being afraid of drunks and always been told that you can't trust someone when they are drinking, I'm ready to get out of there and just find a way out of the situation. (of course I don't want to appear rude though, so i'm unsure of what to do!)
Anyways, he climbs up on the wall with us and tells us how nice we are and he has some sons, that we'd make pretty good daughter-in-laws, and how his ex wife is some Indian from Washington and not the greatest person, and starts singing some James Brown...
My brainn didn't really know how to comprehend this...
But I stayed in listened to him, the best part came when he started telling us how he came to know Jesus in jail, and was quotting scripture after scripture....
I felt God whisper "My people aren't perfect but I still love them" and it was through Uncle John tonight that I'm reminded of how good God is; that he could save a jail birl, who still has his faults but speaks the word of God Boldly, to refresh a Christian girl who is going to school for Biblical Studies and give her back a passion to keep pressing into Gods Character.
And even a glimps of the redemption God is capable of.
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