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Missionary blessings: daily adventures

No, our life is not a daily exotic adventure... but every day brings the unexpected.

 My day is much like yours - feed the family, clean the family, toilet the family, get the family places on time, and somewhere in there try to make the right choices about my priorities.

But in the midst of attempted routine, every day brings a flare for the dramatic.  You can count on nothing - will there be power? will there be water? will there be ink for the printer, petrol for the car, gas for the stove? will someone you're counting on to show up actually show up and show up when you are expecting them? who will show up at your doorstep right when your child decides to disobey?

I can't even describe all the things that "go wrong" in a given day - it almost sounds unbelievably ridiculous some days.  No one would believe us.

And yet these adventures are such a blessing, such a gift.  If I ever thought I was in control before, now I KNOW that I am not.  In the past, I may have deluded myself into thinking that I was sovereign.  There's no delusion now.  I am in control of nothing.  I can make nothing happen when I want it to happen.  Nothing is "ideal" (especially when it comes to treating patients on my front porch or trying in vain to refer them somewhere).


What a blessing, my friends! I am called to be faithful, and here, on this mission field, and that is all that I can do.  Be faithful to what God has called me to be.  Minister to the needy and pray that they better understand the gospel after seeing me.  Minister to my family and pray that they better understand the gospel after experiencing the raw unfiltered me.  Encourage my husband when he, for the 8th month in a row, fails to get this one certain task done (by NO fault of his own!).

THIS is a blessing!

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