Old Fashioned Love

In exactly 7 weeks from today 11 sisters in Christ and I will be putting on a woman’s conference for the girls at the Kwagala Project in Kampala, Uganda.

As I have been preparing/praying/planning God has given me such an excitement to be with these girls again. I can’t wait to love on them, arm them with Bibles, bless them with care packages, teach them about their value in Christ, worship the Lord with them [they are going to help lead worship too, THAT is going to be amazing!], brag on God as we share our testimonies with them and hear theirs!

It is going to be beautiful. ♥

This excitement is such a victory for me because I have really had to [and still am] pray through leaving my husband and kids for a week. You would think that having been to Uganda 4 times before would make this 5th trip easier…but it’s not! It is so painful to leave them and truly surrender them to the Lord [over and over again I surrender them at the foot of the cross, and then find myself picking them up again. Lord, help me keep them there!] God has been so sweet to me in my prayer and devotional time to encourage me in this area. My little girls have even been an encouragement to me as they are doing things on their own to bless the children we will be loving on in Uganda! It brings me such joy to know they are truly apart of this team as well!

God is teaching me through the children of Israel’s example in Exodus 20 that if I let fear keep me at a distance from God [like they did] then I will miss out on encountering God’s glory.

He is teaching me that if I want to live a life exposed to God’s glory it will not be a pain free life.

It will not be a safe-at-a-distance life.

But it will be a life most alive.

Life most abundant.

And that is what I want, an abundant-most alive-life filled with opportunities to encounter His glory.

.::praising the Lord today for how gentle, loving, and sweet He has been to me in this process::.