Today was our last day at the orphanage, and it was a long and very interesting day! I spent the day in sections where God was seemingly doing all of these very different things that each brought their own individual emotions.
As I sit here amongst friends, I think about how most of the people around me I would not have considered friends when we left Atlanta. I did not think that I would connect with some of these people like I did, and for that I am thankful! Tonight a friend who I've met several times tonight let our small group into a part of her life that very few people have ever gotten to step into. I know it was hard, and I know it was scary, AND I know that she didn't have to do it... in fact it would have been easier to not say anything, but she did and God stirred His affection for her in her brokenness inside of all of us, and in that moment she became relieved, if only for a moment.
It has been in the last couple of years, and more so recently, that I've started to be awakened to the harsh reality that people have, but never talk about. I mean my life has been no walk through the park, but you learn to cope and deal, really until it's almost no big deal anymore. So for me, I never realized that people have screwed up lives like I did, and it's really freeing to hear someone bare their harsh reality...to hear someone just drop what people will think, say, or do and just lay it out their because they have nothing else to do with it, fore they know that it's poisonous on the inside and must be relieved, lest it rot them away from the inside out. God bless you if you read this.
Here are a couple of pics, hope you like!
