A Beautiful Reminder

Recently, I've really felt God tugging at my heart. He's been whispering to me, "I'm all around you. Trust in Me and seek Me. I've got things to share with you." I've heard Him and I believed Him, but I didn't want to stop and really listen to what He had to say to me. I'm not sure why? That's a wonderful message to receive. Most of the time we ignore God when we don't feel His presence around us, but I was ignoring Him when He was tapping on my shoulder.

So today I was working on the website; just a few corrections here and there, nothing new and like I often do, I started to explore other organizations that work in Africa. There was one in particular that I hadn't been keeping updated with. One that I used to follow every single day and it had been months since I last went to their website. Today, I felt a push to go check it out.

Tears started rolling down my face as I read Katie Davis's blog. One story in particular of a family from the United States adopting a little girl from Uganda and I was reminded of something. My heart in all of this. God's heart in all of this. Some where between going back to school full time, working a miserable job and trying to focus on Roots of Hope, I lost my heart. I lost my passion to first love the kids of Swaziland. Feeding them, clothing them, sponsoring their school fees - those things are all great and are many of the goals Roots of Hope has BUT loving them is our #1 goal. Loving them like God loves them. They have been adopted into the Kingdom of Christ. Absorb that! Orphans, widows, abused children, abused men, tired grandmothers: God has adopted them into His Kingdom to love them and to take care of them.

That is how this all started. God gave me the heart to love His children and that lead to me starting Roots of Hope. These children are what makes me spend hours every day working on our website, thinking of how to improve things, researching school systems and work opportunities, but in the mix of all of that, I forgot to sit back and think of my precious kids to thank God for them and for His divine plan to take care of them.

RHM is nothing without the heart of Chirst. Thank you Lord for loving our kids first and foremost. I can't wait to go back in November, scoop them up in my arms and tell them they are beautiful and loved children of the Lord. I can't wait to go out today and tell people not just about Roots of Hope but about my heart in all of it.

My prayer is that God's heart for the children of Swaziland will move Roots of Hope forward. That all the other things in my life that are going on, will fall into place because my priority is to love God and to love my kids in Swaziland. If my heart is in the right place, I can't go wrong.

1 John 4:7 - "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God..."