Today is the six month mark from when we welcomed W. and G. into our home. It has probably been the hardest six months of my life for many reasons. It has been a fairly lonely journey too, as it is just hard to understand what it is like unless you've walked in the same shoes so-to-speak. But the other day, after crying out to the Lord for some more encouragement, I received this email out-of-the-blue from Lydia. Oh my! My heart was so touched and my soul was deeply blessed! Thank you, Lord, for this special encouragement!
"It
was funny, I was washing dishes and thinking about Caroline and 40 days for
life and what she/we can do in the off season, when SCC's song "No greater Love" came on. I couldn't help but think about one of the last blog posts you
had about how you have struggled with W&G and how you are fearing the
possible long wait ahead with them. I got to thinking about how this
experience has been so much more a true sacrifice in many ways than it was with
B&B. And how all the effort and love you are trying to put into those two
is ultimately about the Gospel. It's been so huge for you all to really
experience loving the unloveable in lots of different situations these
last few weeks, and it hit me how true it is that your sacrifice for W&G is
real life, nitty gritty, every day missionary work. I just wanted you to be
encouraged that "There is no greater love than this, there is no greater
gift"...that you could ever give those two and the world, than
metaphorically "laying down your life" for the sake of Christ with
these little ones. I was thinking that for unbelievers looking in, our
actions are so much more powerful than our words, and putting our money where
our mouth is speaks volumes. Not
that we should be overly concerned with what the world thinks of us since we
ultimately have an audience of One...but I think it is telling that your heart
is in the right place when they cannot accuse believers of failing to act on
the behalf of orphans and pregnant mothers. And we know we will not stand before
our precious Jesus with with nothing to show for our time down here in the end!
(To roughly quote whoever it was that Caroline quoted in her last update
lol)
I
love you so much!"
1 comment:
Oh how special!! The Lord knows when we need encouragement and just what we need to hear. Thank you for sharing this:) I'm continuing to pray for you to have strength and the Lord's wisdom as you walk this journey!
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