Truth be told, I haven't slept all that much on this trip. Even with a sleep aid, I probably get 6 to 7 hours at best, but that's okay. I'm in love with this country and even better I'm falling in love with these wonderful kids and I don't want to miss a minute of it.
When I'm hanging out with them, I forget to be my "normal" self - poised, driven, focused and on top of my game. Instead, I'm laughing and playing and dancing. I've been in more tickle fights over the last two days than in all of my adult life.
I think we are often closer to the person that God designed us to be as children than we are as adults. The cares of this life rob us of the pure unadulterated joy we experience as children. I love what Jesus said about children:
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me. “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. (Matthew 18:1-6 NIV)
I love that Jesus was such a defender of children and valued them so much in God's kingdom. These kids are major to my heaven father. He cares for them so fiercely.
I'm looking forward to another day!
Wini
