Hi sweet friends!
I am so incredibly blessed to be here serving alongside Destiny Church in Guatemala through the end of April. The way they love this community is absolutely incredible. There’s brokenness everywhere in a way that my sheltered self hasn’t really seen before. But it just makes the love of Jesus shine that much brighter and be so much sweeter.
One moment from this last week of ministry: we were playing with some of the kids in the streets, they’re all covered in dirt from head to toe because that’s what the street is made of. We ended up at the park my team has been working on and the kids began playing on our tires.
This little girl, who was 4 or 5 looked up at me and stretched out her hand wanting me to take it to help her jump from tire to tire. She had eaten a sucker that day and so her face and hands were both sticky and almost black with dirt. I’ve never hesitated so much to take a child’s hand before and I’m sorry to say it was a long moment for me. I knew this was way I was called here, that I was specially appointed to hold this little girls sticky dirt covered hand, yet still I hesitated. I finally pushed through the uncomfortably of it and took her little hand in mine and I don’t know how to describe the feeling that filled me other than purpose. We played on the tires for a while and she gave ma a sticky hug.
As I look back on it I can’t help but wonder if that’s what I look like to our heavenly Father. Coming to him with sticky hands and covered in all my shortcomings and failures, wanting to hold his big clean hands. But unlike me, and fortunately for us, He doesn’t have to think about if He’ll hold our messy hands. He’s not grossed out and He even takes it a step further and bends down to willingly give us a big bear hug and hold us close. I have no words to say how thankful I am for this and my hope is that next time I won’t hesitate but be all in from the start, just like our loving Father is.
Thanks for reading!
Rebekah Sartain
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Rebecca,
Wow it sounds like God is using the simple things to make you aware if His presence and how He helps us.
Praying for you still.
Sherri
He certainly is! Thank you for the prayers!!
Stay encouraged sweet girl.