Hey there all your beautiful people
Today was kind of a bad day for me. I was working in the garage on some wood projects but my mind got the most over me. I was thinking way back and missed Gideon today. I was also thinking about how blessed we are as a family to be here in Cambodia at this time. Yes, in the world’s eyes not the best of countries but for us a huge opportunity to make a difference wherever we go and deal with people. We are so busy surviving here that we forget why we are here. God made it possible for us to be here but He is not looking for our good works He is looking at us for having faith in Him. To God, what we do is of less importance than to worship Him. We are in this country that allows us to be free with whatever and whoever we want to share the good news with and that by itself is a privilege.
I want to share what a friend of mine wrote after he came here and went back home. Let’s be encouraged by what we have and how we can better our thinking towards these small countries. (That includes me, sorry to say) It is so good that we sometimes can get an outside perspective.
“”This country, America, is a despicable mess. I just flew back from a country in southeast Asia that has been beat down and has suffered an unimaginable holocaust. This country has endured turmoil and economic oppression, and has scratched and clawed its way out of the rice patties and is struggling to grasp the 21st century. Yet, when you enter a roadside restroom they are clean….spotlessly clean. The staff in hotels, gas stations, and coffee shops are warm, courteous, and efficient. Teenage girls and young women dress modestly in public, like they have some self-respect, and not like they’re trying to pick up a john.
The contrast is astonishing. The mirage of our wealth and the illusion of prosperity give us an arrogance that we don’t need to behave and there is no reason to perform at our best.
The many, many people I met in Cambodia, on this my sixth trip, shame me as an American. I know we can wave flags, sing patriotic songs, salute our flag with emotional tears in our collective eyes, but we're a freakin' mess. We are below par as a people.
We have some work to do.
Before we can "make America great again" maybe we should learn how to clean a bathroom, treat people with respect, honor a contract, and deliver on a promise. Truth is, right now we are nothing that a developing nation should aspire to.””
We are struggling through this book of Disappointment with God. How can we understand God if we have no clue about the big picture and the big picture is the whole cosmos out there? We cannot think that big. “” When we stubbornly cling to God in a time of hardship, or when we simply pray, more – much more---may be involved than we ever dream. It requires faith to believe that, and faith to trust that we are never abandoned, no matter how distant God seems.””
God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. – Meister Eckhart
I see on Facebook there are so many challenges, here is one for you. Go out and make a difference today just where you are.
Love you all
Rossouw-clan
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