precious memories

One of the amazing orphanage directors for Asia's Hope (not the Crossroads orphanage), sent me this picture yesterday - it causes my heart to yearn...

I have been consumed by the countless details of our Ken Ham conference ever since I got back from Asia.  I thanked the Lord for the timing of this pictures arrival today.  It took me back and helped me focus on the work I was just about ready to sit down and begin.  Work on how to touch the heart strings of our congregation - not just emotionally, but to uncover compassion they didn't know existed for those less fortunate then they are.  A compassion built deeply into each of us by our God - just waiting to be activated and challenged.

The coming weeks promise to be defining weeks for Crossroads - please begin to pray the God will lift the earthly veil from your eyes just as He recently has done for me.  A lifting that has revealed a whole new world to me - a world I chose to ignore previously.  His world.

preparing

This week I began to prepare for my Cambodia trip. It scares me on some levels.

I have never been out of the country except on a cruise ship - quite a contrast huh?

I like America, I like my comfortable life with its abundance of family, food and friends. I like my home and my church and my predictable schedule.

Cambodia is going to rock my world, I know it! So I am preparing. Praying each day as our leader instructed us to pray, studying the study we were given, reviewing my travel 'to do list'... preparing to be changed.

I want to change. My focus is so narrow. My waking moments are consumed with our family needs and remaining consumable moments are exhausted with ministry work and serving our congregation.

I am ready to make any changes that God lays on my life and so I'm preparing.