A God of Compassion and Love

Well over the last week God has been continually giving me a compassion and love for His children and he has been showing me that my time here in Malawi is not going to be an easy feel good trip. Today I was hit with the reality of the work that I will be doing in the Cure Hospital here and on Sunday he gave me compassion for the children of a small community.

On Sunday I went to a new church called Mpemba and I feel in love with the children there. However, my heart broke seeing the clothes that they were wearing and I wanted to at least be able to sew their clothes back together (especially since winter is coming).

Today I went to visit Cure Hospital to try and figure out my schedule of volunteering there. Cure Hospital is a facility that believes in loving God’s children and therefore they perform surgeries and provide FREE treatment for children under the age of eighteen. Now this is not cheap so they have a lot of volunteers as well as rely A LOT on support. Also, they have a private section of the hospital that provides care for anyone, but they have to pay (a very small fee) to have treatment/surgeries which also helps to support the children’s side. Grace (a volunteer) told me that it would be really easy for us to be able to just send in money and feel like we have helped then (which it really does help), but that if we volunteer our time and build into their lives it is way more beneficial and difficult and being there I can see how hard this opportunity that God has given me is going to be. Please pray for me because just seeing the children I have a hard time keeping my emotions in check. It is so hard to see them and not feel sad or angry about the situation that they are in. It makes me want to sit and cry but also bring tons of joy into their lives at the same time. I have a feeling that I will be doing the later a lot there and the former quite often at home.

I know that for sure in six months, but also before that, that I will be changed by this experience and that God has brought this opportunity into my life to teach me and help me grow.

Please pray for how God is going to use me but also for me to be able to have the strength to keep going when I’m working with sick children.

*As I was struggling with this opportunity God sent me the song He Sends His Love by Point of Grace and I have realized that I need to stop being upset by these circumstances and just let him use me to love his children.