La Pasión que Arde en mi Corazón

  Short-term Big news!!! Hi friends!! The last four months in Colombia have been so good to me! I’ve been blessed by living with my parents, I’ve enjoyed the fresh air and I’ve had time to rest, exercise and dive into the wonderful colombian food!! But God also has blessed me with the chance of serving Him through different opportunities while I’ve been here.  I was able to babysit two little girls while their parents attended a missionary training, I started supporting a local children’s outreach ministry and even had the chance to teach English to two fun kids!! God definitely wanted to work on my character and my faith through trying to guide and teach these children, I’ve understood a little bit better how patient He is to me! I really hope they will be able to remember how much God loves them, how they can trust Him and reach out to Him always.  While being in Colombia, I’ve been praying for guidance for “the next step”. At first it was clear that God wanted me ...

For many years, I've been happy and proud of accomplishing many good things. I went to a  great university, worked at great hospital, taught at another great university, and left everything to become a missionary... how good am I? Right? (Wink wink, let's be real, it's all been the grace of God). I've always done the best I can, even in the dinning room on the ship, I w as recognized as a leader, a game-changer, God taught me so much while I was giving my best and working hard. Then God gave me a wonderful promise, He prepared me to come back home with the promise of setting roots,  giving more fruit  and conquering the promised land. So I came to Colombia.  I gladly accepted some weeks (quarantine weeks and a couple more) to rest, just because I wanted to be ready for the next awesome thing God had prepared for me to do. I was eager to show up and show off. In my mind I had so many voices and faces expecting to hear what awesome things I was doing for t...

Would you do it? If you don’t always like it. If sometimes you don’t want to do it. If you picked it for convenience and not for love, if it was the less bad option for you. If sometimes it’s frustrating. If sometimes it doesn’t make sense. It you get hurt in the process, if there are cuts, burns and sore muscles involved.  Would you still do it? Would you still do it the best way possible? Would you still smile?  Would you still go the extra mile? Would you give thanks for it?  Would you choose to speak life over it? I volunteered to work in the dinning room after closing the hospital and having to leave Senegal early (towards the end of March), just because it was the option that matched my preferences, the schedule and the chores were better than others I would probably not enjoy at all. Yes, I was selfish, I wasn't thinking of how wonderful it was going to be to serve the crew members onboard, I was thinking of what was better for me....