My mind is blown. My foundations shaken. Suffering is still a thing? It's still happening?
Why do we not know about this? Why did I not know about this? Do people actually know what is going on? Do people actually realize that there are PEOPLE in these circumstances.
Living breathing people. What do you do in a situation like this? What can you do? Deliver a heater and a stove? A few mattresses, pillows, gas? Just enough food to get by for maybe a month? Show LOVE.
We've been in the Middle East for three weeks now. Visiting families and distributing food and welcoming packages. This sounds like serving right? You have no idea.
At first it felt like we were going on these visits with so much expectations. Wanting to basically change their whole situation, because we 'CAN' do that.. NOT REALLY, and then the whole situation changed.
The tables turned and we ended up being the ones who got served, with LOVE, HUMILITY, HOSPITALITY and THANKSGIVING. Pots and pots of tea, countless cups of coffee. Food, literally thrown at us if we stopped eating. This from families with hungry children, families with no finance, families who aren't allowed to work. Families filled with the GRACE I wish to have.
God's grace, love and compassion is now a reality. What can you do in such situations but LOVE with COMPASSION, LISTEN, FEEL, EMBRACE, CRY, LAUGH and PROCESS.
We are called for times like this. We are called to be GOD'S HANDS and FEET. To have open mouths and open hearts.
Do I have a open heart? Can I really GIVE as freely as I have RECEIVED? Can I walk away UNCHANGED?