learning, loving, and being loved.

i am fool to think that i can do anything for the glory of God, or that i can change the world.  but i am just as much a fool to forget that God can do anything for His glory, and that He is, in fact, changing the world.  

i was a fool to think that i was going to come to haiti and be a part of some great thing.  but i was just as much a fool to forget that God does nothing without purpose, that God brought me here with a purpose, and that God has been, and will always be, bringing about redemption in my life, and the lives of everything around me.  

i came here to serve.  and i am trying to serve.  come to find out, sometimes serving is harder than you might think.  but i am learning, because God is teaching me.  and i am loving, because God is love in me.  and i am being loved, by God, by countless little orphan boys, by some very kind and gentle haitian people, and by one precious little haitian dog.  

in the midst of everything stands the loving-kindness of the Crucified.

[ O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! 

      how unsearchable his judgments, 
      and his paths beyond tracing out! 
   "who has known the mind of the Lord? 
      or who has been his counselor?"
   "who has ever given to God, 
      that God should repay him?"
    for from him and through him and to him are all things. 
      to him be the glory forever! Amen. ]