Inspired

You know what I love about being in a place like this? I love that all of the people I work with are here to serve. They have had to sacrifice in one way or another to be here, and they do it willingly. I have to remind myself sometimes what a special group of people we have here. It isn't normal for people to give up family and friends and familiarity to serve children on the other side of the world.

I was having a conversation with Susie last night, a woman who inspires me in so many ways. She is leaving what has become her home for the past five years--this children's home--to embark on a new adventure of serving women in a prison near Bangkok. I felt challenged as she said, matter-of-factly that it's just a need she saw needs filling, so she's going to fill it. It wasn't about this great call to leadership and pioneering a YWAM ministry in a new location--which are both great things--but it was about seeing a need, a group of people who are hurting and in need of a Savior, and going there to share the good news with them. I am so excited for her. She is going to a dangerous, hot, humid, dirty, and otherwise unwelcoming part of Thailand. There is really nothing in it for her going down there, yet she is going simply because she sees these ladies are eager for Good News. Isn't this what it's all about? Denying yourself, picking up your cross, and following Him? I just pray I will have the courage to live like that, going wherever I see a need that God calls me to fill, no matter what the challenges may be, because His kingdom is greater than my own personal comfort.