Big, warm bed.
High-pressured, warm shower.
Long, warm hugs.
And yet it’s cold… life is not complete anymore.
Please be careful what you pray… Jesus may make your dreams come true.
If anyone can leave their home and serve on the streets for almost a week and come home unchanged, then they sure haven’t traveled with us. For the last six days, I have lived and worked and prayed with some of the most amazing people I’ve ever encountered – truly privileged to now call all of them friends and family. Whether we were standing on a ladder, open-air preaching or sitting in filth sharing food with a traveler, it’s an honor to be able to partake in these small, purposeful acts of kindness.
It’s always hard to pack that van and drive off from a place I dearly love. It’s also difficult to resume normal life when you finally realize that a hurting, lost and dying world is starving for the gospel I’ve treasured in my heart but have been too comfortable or scared to rightly proclaim. It’s going to take more time than I have tonight to analyze what everything means, but I am CERTAIN my life will never be the same.
I’d like to say that I’m glad I’m home, but I’m not sure if I am. Only time will tell. Until then, we pray. I will be praying for the ability to recapture and continue in the glory we’ve shared. I will be praying for a great harvest of souls, unlike anything this area and this group has ever seen. I will be praying for a stirring of the Spirit of God within to push us beyond our boxes and our boundaries and build in us the trust that we so desperately need. I will be praying for the hope of God to contagiously spread to those around us, simply because we dare to tell the truth in love and because we proudly proclaim how broken we are and how holy God is. I will be praying that the perfect Word of Life will find our hearts in our times of need and breathe peace to our weary souls. I will be praying for an unparalleled intimacy, unsurpassed knowledge and unexplainable wisdom.
Truly He will be glorified… I will be healed… and the fruit of these crazy endeavors will be great.
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