For the past 3 nights I have not been sleeping. My membranes in my nose are SO swollen that even the neti pot does nothing.
So, here I am 4am reading blogs. I've read at least 2 blogs tonight that have pointed me to a new blog that I am just loving reading. Wow! This is an incredible, amazing, woman!
Check this blog out:
Kisses from Katie
She is 22 years old, from the US, and has adopted 14 children from Uganda. This is her story about running orphanages, schooling chilren, bringing children back to life, seeing death first hand, having to give up a child to her birthmother, seeing AIDS, and the pain of hunger. It has rocked my CORE. There are children like this ALL over the world that never experience love. They die every day totally uncared for.
I pray that we would be BROKEN for what Jesus is BROKEN for. I sit around and think about the stupid superbowl, think about how we will landscape our yard, what pair of shoes do I need next, how will we ever afford college, when will the remaining 10lbs of baby weight EVER come off...WHILE children die every day with no food. Okay, now I have started crying. Like a really messy cry too. This is not good for my nasal passages.
Katie says something in her blog that is so convicting:
"The TRUTH is that if we call ourselves believers, we cannot sit here and not do anything about it. James says that "pure and undefiled religion is to love the orphans and the widow in their distress and keep ourselves from being tarnished by the ways of THIS WORLD". Jesus says that anyone who welcomes a little child such in His name welcomes Him. He also says that at the end of time when He comes back, He is going to separate the sheep from the goats. He says He will put the sheep on His right and He will say to them "Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me." Notice He doesn't say to them, "Good job, you lived a life without sin." He already knows we aren't perfect. Notice He doesn't say to them, "Good job, you were intelligent, successful, made lots of money and had lots of things." He already told us to store up our treasures in Heaven. He said, "I tell you the TRUTH, whatever you did for the least of these brothers of mine, you did unto me."
This is the Truth... we were given the freedom to believe it. The freedom, the opportunity to do something about it.
You will know the TRUTH and the TRUTH will set you FREE."
2 comments:
this is something that ALWAYS on my mind, yet so is what i will eat, what i will wear, where i will go, what i will do...it's the ultimate struggle for christians. if we choose to follow him, what areas in our lives will we fully give to him?! can we still care about the superbowl? can we still enjoy shopping? can we still spend our money on expensive meals? it's a constant guilt that i carry when i am always considering (or when i realized i failed to consider) those in this world who need to know him and his love while i sit here on indulge in ___________. for example, with all this cold weather, i found myself complaining about not having water or it being to cold to step outside, but what about people who live in conditions like this all the time without the necesseties that i've been so blessed with. makes me want to share all i have. sorry for the rambling. thanks for the blog link...i'm going to go check it out.
That is such an amazing story huh!?! I just came across it not too long ago too. Such a testimony that God can use anyone and an eye opener to what we put value on.
Hope you're breathing better! ;o)
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