I feel like the past couple months have been really good and really hard. I have been reflecting on my past 3 years here in Thailand and thinking about everything I have learned while being here..... I have learned so much about myself, so much about living and working in community, building community, communication and lack there of. It's pretty neat to see how far I've come and yet how much farther I need to go.....learn and grow. I feel like the more I get to be in sweet communion with the Lord the less I realize I actually know Him. That can either be super frustrating or I could look at it as an adventure. You see it's all about how you look at life and choose to look at life. I could wake up each morning and be angry at the Lord because I haven't found my soul mate or because I am not learning the language perfectly or because I don't have enough time to perfect the things I'm a little bit good at or.....yeah, you get it right? I could be angry or I could choose to treat each day like a new adventure and be greatful for the air I have to breath, my health, a good cup of coffee and food in my fridge or in my case good food made for me just down the street. I could be angry because there are so many children dying of AIDS or I could choose to do what I can do to help as many of them as I can...... You see life is a choice... we can choose to be content or discontent, happy or sad, disatisfied or grateful...... we can choose to embrace or run away. Like in Ecclesiastes chapter 3:1-8
"1For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2a time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3a time to kill, and a time to heal;a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4a time to weep, and a time to laugh;a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6a time to seek, and a time to lose;a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7a time to tear, and a time to sew;a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8a time to love, and a time to hate;a time for war, and a time for peace."
There is a season for everything. That is what I have learned. Right now I may not be enjoying the season that I am in but it's necessary for my growth and I will look back and see everything I have learned and that is worth it.
I also want to share what I have been up to lately.... Right now I am still doing nanny shifts about 3 days a week. I love the kids! They are amazing and I am loving getting to know their little personalities and watching them grow up and mature. I also am doing child/staff Sponsorship. It's going well....I am glad that I have a bit more time to keep up on this but I still find that I could always improve on my office skills. ;) I'm so not an office girl but I do enjoy the switch up of scenery and jobs. I am going out doing community visits mostly on Thursdays to a small village in the mountains. We go and visit a boy who's 15 and lives with his grandmother. They are very poor. We are helping the boy make sure he takes his meds regularly and helping them out with getting their health under control. Also encouraging the boy to continue his education. That's been pretty fun. Also just today I went to the hospital with one of my co-workers and helped her teach English in the Children's ward as well as teaching the nurses and doctors English. It was very fun! I got to color with a little girl who has Down-syndrome. It made me miss teaching back at home. She was precious. I hope to go back and do this on a regular basis. I keep hearing stories of children who are homeless, HIV and have no families to take care of them. It overwhelms me but I'm just trusting that we will be able to help them. It's hard to hear these things and not be able to do anything about it except for hand out my number...... It can be quite overwhelming. I know that God has it all under control. All I need to do is be obedient. So here I am...just doing what I can each day.
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| Tinagon, P'Colleen, Grandma Dang, Me and P'Aub |
blessings,
kyndra
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| My little buddy Yannee on Mother's day! She's a little ham! |
1 comment:
Great to hear what you have been up to, and praying for you in this season.
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