It’s hard for me to know what to blog about because so much goes on everyday. Everything is always changing, like a roller coaster ride going up and down. So I put it off while trying to figure out what story to share and then even more happens! It’s almost as if I need to blog everyday but even then I’d still have so much to say! I realize also that I need to put pictures up, it’s just very time consuming but I will try some soon. There are some on Facebook if you wanna check them out.
On Sunday after church we (Nat, Kay, Tony, Nidia and I) went out for lunch at Little Ceasers. Carlos had stayed in Los Pinos and none of the other boys were with us so we had a very quiet, relaxing time together. Afterwards we went back to Los Pinos to pick up Carlos and Ronnie’s family before heading over to visit Ronnie. We’d brought Carlos a
couple pieces of pizza and a cup of coke because he now lives with us. All the kids were in the back and I turned around to see what was going on when I heard bursts of laughter. The sight that met my eyes brought great delight to my heart. Carlos, who was probably very hungry but knowing that the others were hungry too, shared with Ariel, Dania and Amalia instead of eating his food all to himself. He even passed around his coke! Not only did he share with them, on top of it all he was joyful. He didn’t look annoyed that he had to share or
upset because he was still hungry. I was beyond impressed and blessed by the situation unfolding behind me. What a testimony! It reminded me of Jesus feeding the 5,000 with the boys 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish… on a much smaller scale of course. Guaranteed Jesus was looking down and smiling at Carlos, filled with love and joy seeing His son following after His own heart. A few days later I was reading Crazy Love and found this verse-
Isaiah 58:6-7 Is it not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to lose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter- when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
These verses fire me up for so many reasons! Jesus wants to lose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, He wants to set the oppressed free and break every yoke!
Hallelujah! How many times have I cried over the injustice of this world- for the starving children, for the ones who are being forced to kill their families and the families of others, for the women who are sold into sexual slavery and for the ones who choose it, for the people in this world who don’t know love in any sense of the word, for the kids who are on the street sniffing paint thinner because no one believes in them. Jesus wants to see this redeemed so much more than I ever could. All of this hurts His heart more than it ever could mine. Praise the Lord! The second reason is He is telling us to share our food with the hungry and that’s exactly what Carlos did. No one asked or told him to, he just did it. A 13 year old boy.
Wow. How many times do I even consider going hungry in order to feed someone else who’s hungry and probably hasn’t eaten for a while? Sadly, not very often. Is it so much for Jesus to ask of me, me who has been blessed with so much? It shouldn’t be. This is where Jesus heart is. So where is mine? Where is yours?
Okay so lets see…
On Sunday after church we (Nat, Kay, Tony, Nidia and I) went out for lunch at Little Ceasers. Carlos had stayed in Los Pinos and none of the other boys were with us so we had a very quiet, relaxing time together. Afterwards we went back to Los Pinos to pick up Carlos and Ronnie’s family before heading over to visit Ronnie. We’d brought Carlos a
couple pieces of pizza and a cup of coke because he now lives with us. All the kids were in the back and I turned around to see what was going on when I heard bursts of laughter. The sight that met my eyes brought great delight to my heart. Carlos, who was probably very hungry but knowing that the others were hungry too, shared with Ariel, Dania and Amalia instead of eating his food all to himself. He even passed around his coke! Not only did he share with them, on top of it all he was joyful. He didn’t look annoyed that he had to share or
upset because he was still hungry. I was beyond impressed and blessed by the situation unfolding behind me. What a testimony! It reminded me of Jesus feeding the 5,000 with the boys 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish… on a much smaller scale of course. Guaranteed Jesus was looking down and smiling at Carlos, filled with love and joy seeing His son following after His own heart. A few days later I was reading Crazy Love and found this verse-
Isaiah 58:6-7 Is it not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to lose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter- when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
These verses fire me up for so many reasons! Jesus wants to lose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, He wants to set the oppressed free and break every yoke!
Hallelujah! How many times have I cried over the injustice of this world- for the starving children, for the ones who are being forced to kill their families and the families of others, for the women who are sold into sexual slavery and for the ones who choose it, for the people in this world who don’t know love in any sense of the word, for the kids who are on the street sniffing paint thinner because no one believes in them. Jesus wants to see this redeemed so much more than I ever could. All of this hurts His heart more than it ever could mine. Praise the Lord! The second reason is He is telling us to share our food with the hungry and that’s exactly what Carlos did. No one asked or told him to, he just did it. A 13 year old boy.
Wow. How many times do I even consider going hungry in order to feed someone else who’s hungry and probably hasn’t eaten for a while? Sadly, not very often. Is it so much for Jesus to ask of me, me who has been blessed with so much? It shouldn’t be. This is where Jesus heart is. So where is mine? Where is yours?
