RitaS
Registered: January 2008
Posts: 261
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Love the freebie kit Dahlia designed for this challenge - thanks Dahlia!
Felt frame is by MLW Designs.
Journaling:
I thought I knew my desires. The desire to be able to work at home, creating, using the gifts God gave me to provide income for my family. This, I thought, was important - one of my greatest desires, besides that of my family’s salvation. Saturday night, as I sat at a benefit concert for an orphanage in Africa, I watched a video of children who are desolate, with no home, with no parents. I saw a boy younger than our son, carrying a baby on his back, and realized he
was probably the head of his household. I realized my true desire was not the superficial stuff of where I work. How can that really matter? What does matter is that God places me where I am to do His work. Whether or not I am completely happy where I am does not matter,
as long as I obey. That is truly my desire – to be obedient. I need to journey down the path God pointed me to so clearly last year. I have been stalling, not wanting to face the monumental task of beginning an orphan ministry in our new church - a place where I know so few people. How can I accomplish this? Yet, helping the orphans, wanting these children of God to find a loving family, and a home - their situation speaks to
my heart like no other. I want them to have the life that our own daughter enjoys - having her needs met. I know that nothing is impossible with God, and He is just waiting for me to set the wheels in motion. He will send others who have the same desire in their own hearts.
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