December 16, 2007

• Children's Manual please...

  If you ever want to experience a wave pool of emotions, just stop by my home.    Ups and downs are so common you would think I would be used to it by now after living here for nearly two years... and I think I am getting there, but God still has a lot of training for me.  I view this home as training ground for learning to love the hurting and I pray for more full time volunteers to come join the orphanage ministry here in Seoul (there are 22 more homes in the city that are in need of a full time volunteer, come on out!).  The training is very real.  Its not just a matter of learning how to discipline kids, but also how to be sensitive to their scars and show them patient, enduring love.  Sometimes when I am around kids who are in a deep funk and "shut down" (unresponsive), the funk can get on me as well and I'll find myself discouraged and just wanting to get out of here.  I've noticed I'm getting stronger in that I find myself praying sooner after these struggles, but I'm still not immune yet.  And so the training continues.

  God led me to journal about each day since I came here to the home.  It helps.  God sends so many little blessings each day but sometimes I forget them when I'm focused on a struggle/discouragement with a child.  I have to remember the blessings.  And one of the greatest blessings is when I am walking outside and a child sees me at a far distance, calls my name, comes running to me with arms open wide, and jumps up into my arms.  That my friends is a blessing. 

  Full time volunteering, anyone?  Its a roller coaster, but a blessed one.  Please contact me, the Lord will lead you and will make a way!

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