And I said, “What?
What was that?!?
The
Philippines?
Where is the
Philippines?
Wait… NOW?
Right now?”
Each time the words came out of my mouth (“maybe I’ll go the the Philippines”), I wondered why the heck I just said that. God had put this on my mind so heavily that I didn’t even think the words before they were coming out of my mouth. I thought my plans to be a missionary were off in the future, sometime when I was supposedly better prepared and ready. But, God’s timing is higher than ours, and there was no question that if I wanted to follow His will then I would soon be living on the other side of the world.
It has now been two years since the Lord called me to the Philippines. Right now I am in the states for a while. I am at the end of some r&r, and about to get back on the road to visit partners in the ministry of CH. I can not possibly re-trace all that I have been through in these past two years, but I will try and highlight some major things as I also tell you about life back in the states. For me, down to earth honesty is what works best, and since we all know that God does not choose perfect people for His purpose, I anticipate this will be as much about imperfections and learning as anything else. I am encouraged when we study the people who God chose in the Bible, and in my opinion he chooses them (me) because they (I) know full well that what they (I) do is not by their (my) own abilities. It is so evident that God is in control.
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