Its March 10 2011, and it been a crazy day full of overwhelming emotions. I am truly tired and spent with traveling! As I sit in the Paris airport and share my life with these beautiful Cameroonian women surrounding me- I am awed! They have such beautiful stories and yet even in these beautiful stories there are extreme valleys that God has taken them through! You can sii it in their eyes – the true struggle of a woman yearning for more. One woman is actually taking her two year old son to Cameroon to leave him with her mother because she con not provide for him the life he needs. It is heartbreaking, and yet so real because I look into her eyes and see hurt, desire, and pure love.
As I look at these women, as I talk to them, and I listen to them – God is rekindling my heart for these people! There is something about them that’s just real, true, and right. There is an acceptance of others (of me) that is unexplainable but so real. There’s an overwhelming since of support and love. In the midst of these hours with these women I have learned the value of endurance. I am reminded that no matter how many times it feels like life may knock you down – you MUST get back up! God did not create in us a desire to settle for anything less than his best for us, and sometimes this means we will have to work that much harder to achieve what he wants for us!
Humphry- no matter how many times life, people, circumstances, and trials knock us down one promise I give you is to give you everything I have to help us get back up. I can say in its own way your culture has taught me that, and I will be forever grateful.
Almost in Cameroon!
<3 Kayla
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