The power of being content in all situations is the prime key to all locked doors. Despite your current job, your every day tasks, and down time at home – where are you putting your everyday hope at?
Remember these children, remember these people and remember their faces. What’s their condition? And where’s their Hope?
Well it’s day 4, and I have already let the water works begin; imagine that, I must truly be my mother’s daughter. As I reflect on all that we have already done, I am absolutely humbled, amazed and in awe at the Lord’s Fruit in it all.
Through a bumpy and windy journey, we made it to our outreach clinic in the foothills of Tanzania. After minutes of setting up, hundreds soon flocked to our location. Walking from journeys near and far, we saw so many vast diagnoses, that I have had a hard time even wrapping my mind around it.
From the lady who is suffering with wart like impressions, enwrapped completely all over her face and body, as she simply smiled at me as I asked to take her photo – to the little boy who went blind from an injury a while back, as he reached out and gave me a humble hand shake as we finished up curing his scalp with antifungal treatments – to the man walking into our clinic from a recent piki piki (motorcycle) accident, as he grinned from ear to ear despite his treatments being completed and pain currently occurring. I thought to myself, Shelby Liana – Where is your Hope at? What is Your Strength in?
Wow. Abba, my Hope is truly not as strong as the Faith these individuals presented before us today. I strive to achieve Faith like theirs with the same perseverance throughout this winding, difficult life. And as we said tonight during our nightly devotionals, we thank you. I thank you, Lord, for Mama Gayle and Hope Ministries – not only because of her helping hand, but of her genuine heart to serve hundreds of people who do not have healthcare right at the tips of their fingers. I thank you for the healthcare practice in America where I am able to receive emergency care within minutes in comparison to these here in Africa. I am grateful for this team I am serving with; their dedication to these strangers’ health and concerns for their hearts and families. I am grateful for your loving hand over this entire trip – growing us, encouraging us, and loving us all while processing through these difficult and challenging situations. I thank you, Abba, for your never ending Love and your never fading Peace.
It’s been a journey thus far, and I can’t wait to see what this journey entails next. As for now, I reflect and ponder once again…
The power of being content in all situations is the prime key to all locked doors. Despite your current job, your every day tasks, and down time at home – where are you putting your everyday hope at?
Remember these children, remember these people and remember their faces. What’s their condition? And where’s their Hope?
