PIECE OF MY HEART

Well it's 2 o'clock in the morning and I am wide awake. This is when I would normally be working but I have the night off so here I am sitting all by my lonesome at the computer desk. In just 2 weeks my plane lands in Manila, 17 days and I will begin classes, 21 days and I will be doing my first outreach in a clinic. As the time draws closer people continue to ask me why I am doing this. The answer would take a novel to fully explain but I'll do my best here in as few words as possible.

The all encompassing answer is to be like Jesus. My Hero and Bestest Friend. While I am a long ways from being perfect and a far cry from loving people the way He did, this is just one of the many opportunities I have to allow Christs love to flow through me. From my heart, out of my mouth as I share the gospel and through my fingertips as I bandage wounds, pull teeth and offer other health care these people could never afford.

God is head over heels in love with these people just as he is with you and me. Sadly, many of these people don't know it yet, and they certainly haven't felt it. Well soon that will change. The team and I will be meeting people who are sufferring both spiritually and physically and we get to show them a God that cares for the whole person. He hurts when we hurt. As his child it is my joy and responsibility to act out His love for the people of this world. The world is full of owies and boo-boos, medical missions is God's way of bending down and kissing the world better.