Legacies

It seems as though you aren't a real missionary until you get married. I think that before I "settled down" there was still this remote possibility floating around that I might just bail out and head for the hills. These hills, of course, would be covered with good Christian men milling about, waiting for their spouse to come and find them.   Well now that Mark and I have tied the knot, and we are both on the field...I think people are a little more confident that I won't make like a banana and split.

All joking aside, raising a family on the mission field has got to be riddled with complications but at the same time, full to overflowing with God's blessings. Mark and I are honored to be a part of Kingdom work in Honduras. We take every day as it comes, address the challenges that present themselves, try to communicate with family and friends back home, stay buried deep in the Word, work, work, and work.

I was making dinner tonight, thinking about the things that seemed to fall out of the sky today. We had our normal list of things to accomplish, emails to send, we were shooting a video for groups, and boom...the power goes out. We learned that we had a bunch of paperwork to fill out in order to be able to apply for grants through USAID...which we want to do in 10 days! We had to put together a last minute itinerary for a group and email it out, once the lights came back on. And then, there is the continuing education I have to complete so that I can keep my Dietetics license. Sometimes it makes my head spin. So, as I was chopping vegetables, the Lord reminded me that I wouldn't be content doing anything else. And that is so true.

We are only truly satisfied when we are living in God's will. No matter what the To Do lists look like, or how many challenges you face in a day, it all boils down to one thing...are you making a difference for Jesus? Will the legacy you leave on this planet point people to Him?