WOW-It has been awhile!

I left for Uganda on May 24th.  This trip was a long time in coming.  I was supposed to go with some great ladies last year-one that is my good friend and I ended up with kidney cancer so I wasn't able to go until this year.

I am of course still digesting all that God revealed to me on this trip-as is always the case when returning from a mission trip.  Just because our feet touch American Soil-doesnt mean the trip ends.  I always experience the revelations continuing -even when back home.

I think one of the most powerful experiences for me was the time spent with disabled/special need orphans.  Not only are you living a life among the Fatherless, but you are suffering physically as well.  Really?  I still can't get my head around it.  I spent some time with a precious child name Arafat who is unbelievably sweet.  Whether I am at home, doing yoga or sitting on a spinning bike-I can't get his precious smile out of my head.  I also hung out with a little boy who I named Joseph.  Can you believe no one knew his name since he is deaf and there isn't someone to speak sign language where he stays.  Seriously?  He was so beautiful and had the biggest smile.  I asked all the little girls to make sure when I left and include him and be nice to him-as when I walked up-he was sitting on the outskirts of the driveway while all the rest of the kids were huddled up on the patio.

In Uganda it seems if you are born with a disability, you end up an orphan-in many cases.  You are considered an outcast from the start.  I met one of two girls who run a special needs orphanage in Jinja.  These girls are probably not even 25.  I was blown away by their surrender of their lives to Christ.  I felt awkward and embarrassed thinking of me and how I live.  Day in and day out they take care of 20-30 special needs orphans that the rest of the world has cast out.  They truly care daily- 24x7 for God's "precious", the world's "least of these."

I couldn't speak.  I didn't have words.

I must be honest-in my flesh I would have been grossed out by some of the things I saw-but I knew I was there in my spirit, with God giving me eyes to see what He wanted me to see and ears to hear what He wanted me to hear.

I felt weird are group was there.  Imposing for a few hours. All they did was work.  Work to care for the kids.  Cooking.  Feeding. Teaching.  Hugging. Cleaning. Hugging some more.  Drawing. Chasing. Rubbing backs.  Wheeling Wheelchairs.  Feeding while kids spit up.  Pattng backs so they didn't choke.  Hugging.  Chasing.  Picking up limp bodies and moving to wheelchairs.  Loving.  Loving.  Loving.  Serving.  Serving.  Serving.

For me-it isn't about what I do-it is about what I don't do.

Matthew 25:45

“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

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Our Perfect Parent on this Mother's Day

I always call Jesus our perfect parent.  He is in fact Our Father!  But He is our Mother too!  He is our greatest Encourager, our greatest Comforter, our Protector, our Shield, our Refuge, our Everything.  I think He gives on loan every child brought into this world to the parents He chooses they be born to and raised by.

If those parents raise them that is.  


I have done just a little bit of travel to third world countries over the past 3 years specifically to Kenya and Haiti and I have witnessed first hand the dire life of an orphan.  An orphan who maybe eats a mud pie to fill his or her tummy because they don't have any food.  An orphan that lives in a cow dung hut and not on a street in a slum, if he is lucky enough.  An orphan whose eyes look funny because they are so mal nurioushed and an orphan who desperately craves love in a manner I have never experienced to the point that they practically throw themselves at you because they are so...unloved.


An orphan that has the brightest biggest smile just because he is alive.
An orphan who just like your own child desires to do the best he or she can in school.
An orphan who wants to  do a good job or receive an "ada boy" since they don't even know what a sticker is.
An orphan who if he has some shoes,  is filled with more pride than a child who gets a full ride scholarship.
An orphan who most likely walks 2-5 miles one way to school...with no shoes.
An orphan who has to go home half way through the day to eat some pourage because he/she can't stay awake during class.

An orphan who thinks his or her only way out is to get an education...yet they have no one to pay for it.

Yes these orphans are just as precious to our God as the child who has a $100 outfit on in his or her 1st grade class.
As the child who has an iPad and so many video games and toys that they will end up- never having enough.
As the child whose parent drives them each way to and from school.
As the child whose primary fear is what might be in their closet or under their bed at night.


Although we may not get to see the 143 million orphans around this world, they are there-living in darkness, trying to function, trying to do their best, wondering if they are loved.
May the Light of Christ comfort them.
May they sense His love and presence on this Mother's Day!
May they know they are fearfully and wonderfully made and are not and never will be 
forgotten by their Perfect Parent!
May they all know Him intimately and be adopted back into His Kingdom someday if not already.




There are over 143 million orphans in this world today and I believe around 125, 000 in the US alone from the bit of research I have done.  And on this Mother's Day, I want to lift them up, cover them in prayer and truly hope and pray that the Holy Spirit reveals to them just how special they are to Jesus our King of Kings!  They are loved!  Deeply!  Perfectly!

James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.


Isaiah 1:17
¹⁷ Learn to do right; seek justice.
   Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
   plead the case of the widow.