We live within the same walls as our ministry. We sleep one floor above the 22 kids that we get to love on every day.
On the weekends we get to go into town, watch local soccer games or take the drive to Tegucigalpa. Throughout the week our work typically remains inside of the compound.
We’ve just hit the second month mark….and it’s safe to say that I have caught the cabin fever bug.
In devotions last week Papi Lee shared some words that began a healing process for my case of cabin fever. He talked about a conversation he had with a group of World Racers. Asking them what they wanted to learn by the end of their 11 month trip, someone replied that they wanted to “find God’s purpose for their life.”
Papi stopped them and reminded them that there were 3 boys here at the ministry waiting for adoption. These boys needed to see an example of a godly man in their lives for the month of their stay. He had a purpose to fulfill at that moment.
Even on something at intentional as a mission trip it’s easy to get too caught up in the future. We ask God to show us our purpose or our calling and when we don’t get an answer we think we’ve gone unheard.
Or we believe the lie that we don’t have a purpose.
I’ll have a purpose when I get back home in less than a month. I’ll have a calling when I graduate. But I also have a purpose right here in this compound. We’ve been here for a month and our work here is not done.
In this, I’m learning so much about what it looks like to be present.
Being present when your work feels monotonous.
Being present when you feel like you you’d be more useful elsewhere.
Being present when you don’t feel a purpose.
Being present isn’t a feeling – it’s a choice.
Goodbye cabin fever. Hello freedom.
