Coming:
Last week, one of our students lost a cross necklace at the beach. It was given to him by one of his grandparents and was pretty important to him, so he was sad at its loss. We prayed briefly for it to be returned to him and hoped for the best, but let's be honest here... when do we pray those things and actually expect them to happen? Well it did!! A few days later, one of the staff was walking barefoot and stepped on it. On a dirt path miles away from the beach!! It was such a small, random thing, but God cared enough for Dan to bring his cross necklace back in such an abnormal and loving way. =) So cool!!! Going: This weekend we also lost something, or more correctly, someone. Yunmi, one of the Korean women in our school, and the leadership agreed, after much prayer, that it was best for her to not go on outreach. Instead, she bade us farewell and went home to Korea. As a school, we gathered together the night before her departure to pray for her, bless her, and say our goodbyes. This morning, we waved goodbye one last time as she drove to the airport. It is always sad to see one of our students leave us, but we are in agreement that this is what God is doing in her life right now. We bless her and pray that God continues to take her into even more growth in Him wherever she goes. Amidst all of the coming and going - finding and losing - God continues to be good! He shows His goodness in unexpected and unpredictable ways. His love never fails, but that doesn't mean that we can predict it. He does things we do not expect and sometimes does not do things that we were expecting, but we can rest assured that every action and inaction of His in rooted completely in love for us and is for our best. While we do not sometimes understand it, His hand at work really is remarkable. And even though it can be frustrating at times, it is such a comfort to know that He can love us in ways we do not understand. If we could understand it, that would mean His love was like ours. Comparable. Thank God it is anything but!!! I know myself and my own dysfunctional forms of love well enough to know that they are beyond flawed. And that's OK. I'm not perfect [yet] and He does not expect me to be. But His patience endures and He continues to model for us His perfect love - something we do not know how to deal with at the moment, but that continues to be the lesson He teaches our hearts and that we are slowly inching our ways closer and closer towards. Someday we will be with Him and He will be able to explain to us the things that we cannot grasp at the moment. Until then, I continue to lean into Him and ask Him for more of His love and more revelation about the way He loves, knowing that it might be the most confusing thing in the world to me, but that it is also the thing that I can rely on and never have enough of.
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